About Getting Things Done
11 Mar
Maybe many of us geeky types live in our own worlds where we take for granted, as ‘normal,’ the things we know and love (or things we hear about a lot). Like GTD(Getting Things Done), for example. I’m not a huge practitioner of the GTD philosophy, but I read enough blogs about it, and as a Mac user/follower of Mac-centric software and tech news, am constantly in the loop about… GTD applications. I’ve tried just about every GTD app there is in the Macniverse, but seldom persisted (isn’t it strange there’s hardly even one equivalent GTD app on Windows that’s… near the quality of the many GTD apps we have on OS X?). Today, on a whim, I decided that implementing iGTD into my workflow would be a great idea. I had to tell someone about it on the phone.
Me: “Check your email, I sent you a screenshot of how I’m serious about doing what I promised you I’d do!”
Someone: “How do you go about proving that you’re serious about doing something you promised me.. in a screenshot?”
Me: “I downloaded this application, created a new project for you, and added the two tasks I was supposed to do under it. Marked it as high priority, even.”
Someone: “Instead of… actually just doing it?”
Me: “That’s right. Funny how I haven’t… thought of that.”
Moral of the story. Every once in a while, look up from your RSS reader and your GTD applications, and… actually try to get things done instead of blogging about getting things done. That is, if you’re a regular geek like me and not one of those not super-efficient GTD kungfu masters who can code beautifully, write really well, take great photographs, run a highly successful online empire, all while writing code that can change the world, and organizing the bits and pieces of your life using GTD applications. Alternatively. Use any combination of the following: pen and paper, pen and sweaty palm, a real stickie note stuck on computer screen. Because I could really do with getting things actually done right now, with the million and one projects I’ve very ambitiously taken on, being hyper-efficient might not help as much as having maybe eight extra hours in a day.
