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Get Things Done, Keep Your Project Moving

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Trent Hamm shares tips on how to get things done. He says that the principal factor in the GTD system is to keep a master list containing entries for every project in progress.
One of the biggest difficulties in modern life is dealing with projects. We deal with so many projects in our life, [...]

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Steve Fisher Reviews 2009 – A Year with GTD

Small business evangelist Steve Fisher shares how 2009 has been a year of “renewal and re-direction” for him. In this article, he writes about GTD and how he maximizes his productivity.

Getting Things Done by David Allen
2009 – A Year With GTD
I decided that in order to commit myself and have accountability I began learning the [...]

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Happenchance: How I Use My Knockoff Moleskine

Creative guy Seth M Baker narrates how he relies on his knockoff Moleskine the way “a ninja depends on guile and explosive powder, a pirate depends on rum, or the Three Wolf Moon t-shirt manufacturers depends on irony and snark.”
Several months ago, I bought a knockoff Korean moleskine journal.  At first, I thought I’d use [...]

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Productivity Pron

From Witty Reads:
Productivity Pron: “One of my former coworkers & I used to spend hours talking about how to set up the best individualized personal information manager. We used to call those conversations productivity porn, not realizing that someone would come along an formalize that term, albeit slightly skewed, as Productivity Pr0n. Finding a good [...]

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2 Thread Suggests Ways to Get Things Done

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From 2 Thread:
GTD (or Getting Things Done) is, simply said, a time management system. In 2002, David Allen published a book called Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. This book started it all. David’s book is a must read for anyone interested in practicing GTD.
For me, GTD has been a god-send. Over [...]

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Simplifying Things by Going Back to Basics

If you want to simplify your life, why not try reducing things to bare bones? Instead of relying on your iPhone for almost every single task you need to do, why not go back to basics by getting a notepad for your personal thoughts, concepts, notes, and to-do lists?
Greg, who’s fascinated with discovering methods to [...]

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Bradley A. Mills: How to Get Things Done

Bradley Mills is an undergraduate student taking 18 hours of school and interns at their church for about 25 hours a week. With a hectic schedule such as his, it’s no surprise that “things were falling through the cracks.” Thus, he devised a GTD system that helped him get things done.
First, everything [...]

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How the Inkyjournal Uses Moleskines

Inkyjournal shows us a number of ways to use the Moleskine:
I first bought one Moleskine-book and tried these hacks to implement the GTD-system. But soon I found out it is not the things you use but the system you have. When you have the system right then you can use anything you want, from electronic [...]

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Shelly Cole Tames the Chaos

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Web designer Shelly Cole fulfills a six-month late New Year’s resolution and takes the all-important plunge towards efficiency. She finally gets herself a Moleskine, make that 10 Moleskines — two large ones and eight pocket-sized ones. How’s that for a first-time Moleskine owner?
After becoming convinced that the universe has blessed her decision, she [...]

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Brady MacDonald Assesses His GTD Progress

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Brady MacDonald, a system administrator at Hewlett Packard, checks his GTD progress and describes how he relies on a Moleskine cahier as a “catch all to do list,” adding that he prefers carrying the notebook over his iPhone since he writes faster than he types.
His note-taking duties are assigned to the large moleskine notebook he [...]

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