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This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.

by pdq 10y ago

karmelapple 10y ago
Getting Things Done does not focus on concretely scheduling tasks for specific times and dates, unless I missed a huge piece of that book.
- refulgentis 10y ago
  You're correct, in fact, it warns explicitly assinging a datetime unless it _has_ to be done by then. That being said, the biggest reason my GTD practice fails is I rarely spend time getting things done, but instead end up grooming an ever-growing to-do list. Assigning datetimes to trigger reminders is tempting...
  - karmelapple 10y ago
    Don't do it! Instead, let your list go a little wild, and put the stuff you truly don't need to do in that "Someday" pile and don't look at it until you've gotten a few projects done from the pile you've determined is important.
BeetleB 10y ago
>This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling. Pretty much the opposite! David Allen is against scheduling anything other than hard deadlines. The ones which if you miss, you really miss! The examples in the article are the ones he tells you never to put in the calendar (groceries, date night, etc). Anything that you can delay means it does not belong in there. He does have a tickler file, but that's merely for reminding you, and only at the day granularity.
- starquake 10y ago
  I agree, this is the opposite of Getting Things Done. I've been using the GTD method (quite obsessively) for about a year now and I love it. I've got clean workspace where everything is waiting for me to do stuff. I have a system of lists categorized by Next Actions, Someday/Maybe, Projects and so on. Both digitally and with paper. When I saw the title I was surprised. And my experiences are quite the opposite of what I'm reading in the article. My life improved a lot by using lists. The problem of having to guess how long stuff takes and the cascading effect of constantly having to reschedule everything was very depressing for me. Nowadays I'm doing the important stuff from the Next Actions list and do something from the Someday/Maybe list for fun. And my calendar and reminders make sure I do the time critical stuff at the time it needs to be done. This article sounds insane to me.

This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.

by pdq 10y ago

This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.

karmelapple 10y ago

Getting Things Done does not focus on concretely scheduling tasks for specific times and dates, unless I missed a huge piece of that book.

refulgentis 10y ago
You're correct, in fact, it warns explicitly assinging a datetime unless it _has_ to be done by then. That being said, the biggest reason my GTD practice fails is I rarely spend time getting things done, but instead end up grooming an ever-growing to-do list. Assigning datetimes to trigger reminders is tempting...
- karmelapple 10y ago
  Don't do it! Instead, let your list go a little wild, and put the stuff you truly don't need to do in that "Someday" pile and don't look at it until you've gotten a few projects done from the pile you've determined is important.

BeetleB 10y ago

>This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling. Pretty much the opposite! David Allen is against scheduling anything other than hard deadlines. The ones which if you miss, you really miss! The examples in the article are the ones he tells you never to put in the calendar (groceries, date night, etc). Anything that you can delay means it does not belong in there. He does have a tickler file, but that's merely for reminding you, and only at the day granularity.

starquake 10y ago
I agree, this is the opposite of Getting Things Done. I've been using the GTD method (quite obsessively) for about a year now and I love it. I've got clean workspace where everything is waiting for me to do stuff. I have a system of lists categorized by Next Actions, Someday/Maybe, Projects and so on. Both digitally and with paper. When I saw the title I was surprised. And my experiences are quite the opposite of what I'm reading in the article. My life improved a lot by using lists. The problem of having to guess how long stuff takes and the cascading effect of constantly having to reschedule everything was very depressing for me. Nowadays I'm doing the important stuff from the Next Actions list and do something from the Someday/Maybe list for fun. And my calendar and reminders make sure I do the time critical stuff at the time it needs to be done. This article sounds insane to me.