Getting Things Done¶
Allen, D. (2001). Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Penguin.
Cited by¶
4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Batch Processing
- Finance and personal productivity — end-of-period settlement and billing cycles; and time-batching of email, errands, or meetings to amortise cognitive setup costs.
This sourcePopularizes time-batching of similar tasks (email, errands) to amortize the cognitive setup cost of context-switching.
- Finance and personal productivity — end-of-period settlement and billing cycles; and time-batching of email, errands, or meetings to amortise cognitive setup costs.
Mechanisms¶
- Deferred Objectives Backlog
- The form echoes the "Someday/Maybe" list
This sourceDefines Someday/Maybe as a tracked list for possibilities not currently committed to action, kept in a trusted system so ideas can leave the mind without being lost.
- The form echoes the "Someday/Maybe" list
- Inbox-to-Archive Processing Workflow
- The approach follows the "clarify and organize" spirit of established personal-workflow practice, where the inbox is explicitly a processing queue rather than a storage location.
This sourceDescribes the inbox as a processing station rather than a storage bin.
- The approach follows the "clarify and organize" spirit of established personal-workflow practice, where the inbox is explicitly a processing queue rather than a storage location.
- Weekly Review
- The output is an updated, trusted plan; the discipline is that it recurs whether or not anything feels urgent, because the drift it catches is exactly the kind that doesn't announce itself.
This sourcePrescribes a weekly review that updates projects and action lists so the system remains current and trusted.
- The output is an updated, trusted plan; the discipline is that it recurs whether or not anything feels urgent, because the drift it catches is exactly the kind that doesn't announce itself.
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