garden/getting-things-done.md

Getting Things Done

• [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.
  • dome 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] :)