garden/getting things done.md

• a technique.
  • GTD for short. A productivity method by David Allen.
  • It's also a book, which I haven't read; Luciana has.
  • go https://hamberg.no/gtd
  • The gist of it:
    • Break down tasks. Be specific.
    • When go through your backlog, like any inbox (including a "main" one, your base field of operations for executing the GTD algorithms), you try to either take any needed action immediately (but only if it's short; perhaps set a threshold in seconds, rather than minutes) or classify for later doing.
    • My take: as I can, I try to expand items, breaking them down into simpler actions and tagging them (classifying them) with a greater degree of specificity. This makes the tasks more tractable over time.
    • You classify according to time and context for the task of doing. Some example tags:
      • next action, next week, some day, office, home, project.
    • next action is where a lot of the magic happens. At some point something needs to be your next action to get done :)
  • I'm trying using Getting Things Done in the Agora:
    • Actions are wikilinks (I don't distinguish between links and tags; they're all just nodes).
    • read, research, write.
    • next action -> do
    • some day.
    • agora plan.
    • do acts as an index/root node of the GTD system; whenever I don't know what to do, I just visit do :)