Lifehacker: The Getting Things Done (GTD) method has been around for years, frequently cropping up on productivity blogs and forums since David Allen first released Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity in 2001. Since then, he’s updated the book a little and the concept has continued to proliferate. Here’s how to use it in your own life.
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Ever since learning about the getting things done method in production resource management. It turns out I had secretly been using the GTD method in my bullet journal for years and just did not have a name for the method. I think it is so important to organize your tasks in a way where you can see what the priorities and effort levels are for each individual task. As a person with a chronic illness who is involved in a production right now it is so important to know what you need to get done and how much energy it takes to get that task done. Writing an email and picking up the mail take the same amount of time to execute but require drastically different amounts of energy in my mind and can have a varying amount of importance depending on what you are picking up or the content of the email sent. It is so important to have different buckets for the things on your to do list and the GTD method provides that scaffolding.
After learning about the ‘Getting Things Done’ (GTD for the purposes of this comment) method in Production Resource Management earlier this semester, it was surprising and interesting to see it pop up in the week's articles in one of the productivity hacks of the week. While, personally I had (and continue to have) a hard time with the GTD system as a whole as it relates to my life and how I choose to organize it, I do see the argument of the author towards the usefulness of the system as a whole. There is a certain adaptability to the GTD system which makes it have a broader use case than other productivity methods that have appeared in other weeks, but it does still demand quite a lot of set-up time, in my opinion. That being said, reducing work-load related stress is an admirable goal, and this seems like a popular and useful tool for many people.
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