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Ask HN: How you implement GTD in you personal life

2 points by maheshs 17y ago

I just finish GTD book. I want to know how much practical is to maintain all the projects and their actions in day to day life. What all tools you guys are using for GTD.

mingyeow 17y ago
textmate. ;D
sidmitra 17y ago
Microsoft OneNote + Moto-rokr E6(that's my phone) Here's my workflow, I have an "action" page which containing multiple bullet lists. Whenever a task/thought occurs that requires action i put it into my action page under a heading it belongs to.. like <myresearch>, <myDayJob>,<MyHobby>, so i don't lose any tasks. Everynite i pick some things i need to do tomorrow, and add them to my cell phone tasklist, which also carries my calendar for meetings/events etc. And thats it. All day i just keep track of my phone task list, cos it's just shorter and i don't have to be look at the bigger list.
roedog88 17y ago
I've been using the hipster pda. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-... for a few years. It works well for me. I find that maintenance takes very little effort any more.
weaksauce 17y ago
I love Things for todo lists on the mac but I do not follow the GTD system. That being said, these people have had some success with using Things as a GTD tool: http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.html http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.ht... http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__Getting_Things_Done http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__...
mbrubeck 17y ago
I use todo.sh: http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/
mannicken 17y ago
I used to use a bunch of todo.txts, but then I wrote a system that allows you to basically enter todo.txts online, parses and categorizes them, while keeping original text nearby. And it's available wherever you are. The original problem I had with all the other GTD systems was a lot of tabbing, I type around 120WPM and it's much easier for me to enter something like: project taskulus.reliability.history.milestone36 1. cleanup scheme:30min 2. add observed_in_task field and test:30min 3. add HTML generator for event history:1hr It's basically like microtasking :)

2 points by maheshs 17y ago

I just finish GTD book. I want to know how much practical is to maintain all the projects and their actions in day to day life. What all tools you guys are using for GTD.

mingyeow 17y ago

textmate. ;D

sidmitra 17y ago

Microsoft OneNote + Moto-rokr E6(that's my phone) Here's my workflow, I have an "action" page which containing multiple bullet lists. Whenever a task/thought occurs that requires action i put it into my action page under a heading it belongs to.. like <myresearch>, <myDayJob>,<MyHobby>, so i don't lose any tasks. Everynite i pick some things i need to do tomorrow, and add them to my cell phone tasklist, which also carries my calendar for meetings/events etc. And thats it. All day i just keep track of my phone task list, cos it's just shorter and i don't have to be look at the bigger list.

roedog88 17y ago

I've been using the hipster pda. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-... for a few years. It works well for me. I find that maintenance takes very little effort any more.

weaksauce 17y ago

I love Things for todo lists on the mac but I do not follow the GTD system. That being said, these people have had some success with using Things as a GTD tool: http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.html http://deadsilversky.blogspot.com/2009/01/gtd-with-things.ht... http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__Getting_Things_Done http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/GTD__...

mbrubeck 17y ago

I use todo.sh: http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/

mannicken 17y ago

I used to use a bunch of todo.txts, but then I wrote a system that allows you to basically enter todo.txts online, parses and categorizes them, while keeping original text nearby. And it's available wherever you are. The original problem I had with all the other GTD systems was a lot of tabbing, I type around 120WPM and it's much easier for me to enter something like: project taskulus.reliability.history.milestone36 1. cleanup scheme:30min 2. add observed_in_task field and test:30min 3. add HTML generator for event history:1hr It's basically like microtasking :)