(Part 2) Top products from r/gtd
We found 5 product mentions on r/gtd. We ranked the 24 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right
22. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Getting Things Done The Art of Stress Free Productivity
Also, if someone could walk thru how they would handle getting a task done using the method. I would like to apply it to reading the book Getting Things Done, what steps would someone use or is this a bad example?
OK, this is an easy one for me because I just helped a friend get started with GTD. So at a very very very basic level, this is the GTD process for a new task:
What is it?
GTD is an action-management system that is taught through a book written by David Allen. It teaches you how to be personally productive. If you have problems being organized, staying on-task, and getting things done, this is the book for you.
What is the outcome desired?
The outcome desired is to study the book, learn the system, and implement it into your life so that you can get stuff done like a pro.
What is the very next physical action?
The very next physical action is to purchase a copy of the book so that you can start studying it. I have the audio book, the Kindle book, and the paperback book. I highly recommend the paperback book over the other two versions because you are going to want to flip through it a lot; it is a very dense book and paper is the easiest way to study it, imo. The latest version is available for $12 straight from Amazon via this link: (if budget allows, actually do it - go buy it, right now - this is your very next physical action step required to move your GTD project forward!)
https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0143126563/
Okay, so there you go - that's an example of how you would walk through getting a task done, at least from a very high level (there's more to GTD, including asking the question of should you be doing this or should it be deleted to someone else, is this is a wishlist item for the future that you want to remember but maybe not do right away, and so on). Nothing has physically changed in the real world (at least, not yet), but you've done a tremendous process of defining a to-do item - you've converted it from something undefined to something actionable: "I want to learn GTD" becomes "I need to purchase the book" - and that will open the door to doing more next-actions related to your project of studying GTD.
Now, expanding on how you would apply it to reading the book - in GTD, there are next-actions, and then there are projects. A project is simply defined as any task that requires more than one next-action item. That's a little bit different from how a project is traditionally defined, but it makes sense, because anything that is going to take more than one step needs to be tracked somehow so that you don't forgot to keep working on it. So as far as creating a book project, this is simply how I would approach it - note that this is not GTD "canon" or anything, it's just the way I personally deal with approaching the study of educational texts:
On some quick tangents:
Anyway, looping back to the "study the GTD book" project: you'll spend an hour or so typing up the headings, and a few minutes figuring out a schedule, a few seconds to setup a recurring reminder alarm on your phone (or watch, or calendar, or whatever), and then you have a couple procedures (mindmap + short bullet-point notes) for actually buzzing through each section. Over the next few weeks, you'll make tremendous progress through the book and will start to understand how GTD works. So that's how I would approach it, at any rate. Do whatever works best for you, of course - if you have a great personal studying system or a photographic memory or whatever, adapt it to your situation. For me, I absolutely need to break big projects like studying an entire book down into small, bite-sized tasks that I can work on day after day after day, because I just can't absorb that much information that quickly, especially not without getting distracted partway through.
So go buy the book & report back! lol
Well, if you're actively working on Mr. Smith's case or file or whatever, I would do the two minute task. As I said, if it's important to log your progress for a project, I would definitely do it. If you have a template that you use for many customers, I would personally create a checklist and then attach a copy of that checklist to every person's file. That way you can see whether or not you've done X or Y for any given customer. I'm a huge proponent of checklists. If you're interested, I would seriously recommend The Checklist Manifesto.
Here's the links to save you some time.
Making It All Work:
https://www.amazon.com/Making-All-Work-Winning-Business/dp/0143116622/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478137388&sr=8-1&keywords=making+it+all+work
Ready for Anything:
https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Anything-Productivity-Principles-Getting/dp/0143034545/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1478137428&sr=8-3&keywords=making+it+all+work