After reading David Allen's Getting Things Done last summer, I gained a lot of insights into how to stay on top of a seemingly endless onslaught of email. Look below for a good outline of Allen's ideas.
Getting Things Done
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This article is about the book by David Allen. For other uses, see Getting Things Done (disambiguation).
| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | |
| Author | David Allen |
|---|---|
| Subject(s) | Business |
| Publisher | Penguin |
| Publication date | 2002 |
| Pages | 267 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0142000281 Reprint Edition |
| Followed by | Ready For Anything |
Getting Things Done (commonly abbreviated as GTD) is an action management method of The David Allen Company, and the title of the book by David Allen which describes the method. Both Getting Things Done and GTD are registered trademarks of the David Allen Company.
GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate on actually performing those tasks. What distinguishes David Allen's book from most other time- or action-management literature is the level of detail to which he describes a possible way to organize oneself.
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