<story><title>A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done</title><url>http://hamberg.no/gtd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempestn</author><text>GTD is a great system; once you follow it (in some form), it quickly becomes difficult to imagine how anyone lives their life without it.&lt;p&gt;I have found Evernote to be a great tool to implement a GTD system.  Evernote&amp;#x27;s greatest strength is its flexibility.  It works on basically every platform and integrates with most other tools you use.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t really tell you &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; to use it though, which is where GTD fits in perfectly.  (And it turns out to be really helpful to integrate as much of your system as possible into one tool.)&lt;p&gt;I found this site to be a great resource getting started with GTD and Evernote: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesecretweapon.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thesecretweapon.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My current system is very similar to what they describe, although I added a &amp;#x27;Waiting&amp;#x27; status, which includes both things that need to be done at or after a given time, and things where I want to remember that I&amp;#x27;m waiting on something outside my control (a reply to an email, for instance).  I set reminders on everything in there.&lt;p&gt;The one other significant tweak I made is to use notebooks instead of tags for the &amp;#x27;when&amp;#x27; portion.  Since every task needs to have a &amp;#x27;when&amp;#x27;, and since every note has one and only one notebook, this seemed like a logical fit.  So instead of the &amp;#x27;Current&amp;#x27; notebook they recommend, I simply use a Current stack containing a notebook for each priority level.&lt;p&gt;I also use Powerbot to improve clipping emails from gmail.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the details don&amp;#x27;t matter and are easy to change.  The main point is, give GTD on Evernote a try, and you&amp;#x27;ll be glad you did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solistice</author><text>If you like the challenge of a steep  learning curve, might I suggest org-mode for emacs? It&amp;#x27;s got tasks, todos, built in  agenda calculation, and so on. Also it&amp;#x27;s shipped as default with emacs. For something like a &amp;quot;waiting&amp;quot; status, you can easily reconfigure the default to-do states on a global or per file basis, and even have  several different sets of states for tasks.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a pretty handy guide showing what you can  do with it, and then there&amp;#x27;s allways the org-mode documentation which outlines all features. 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;doc.norang.ca&amp;#x2F;org-mode.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve got a friend of mine who uses it  for literally everything from notetaking to planning projects and billing project time, and I&amp;#x27;m slowly getting into it as well. If Evernote&amp;#x27;s greatest strenght is flexibility, this will certainly give it a run for its money.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done</title><url>http://hamberg.no/gtd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempestn</author><text>GTD is a great system; once you follow it (in some form), it quickly becomes difficult to imagine how anyone lives their life without it.&lt;p&gt;I have found Evernote to be a great tool to implement a GTD system.  Evernote&amp;#x27;s greatest strength is its flexibility.  It works on basically every platform and integrates with most other tools you use.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t really tell you &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; to use it though, which is where GTD fits in perfectly.  (And it turns out to be really helpful to integrate as much of your system as possible into one tool.)&lt;p&gt;I found this site to be a great resource getting started with GTD and Evernote: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesecretweapon.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thesecretweapon.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My current system is very similar to what they describe, although I added a &amp;#x27;Waiting&amp;#x27; status, which includes both things that need to be done at or after a given time, and things where I want to remember that I&amp;#x27;m waiting on something outside my control (a reply to an email, for instance).  I set reminders on everything in there.&lt;p&gt;The one other significant tweak I made is to use notebooks instead of tags for the &amp;#x27;when&amp;#x27; portion.  Since every task needs to have a &amp;#x27;when&amp;#x27;, and since every note has one and only one notebook, this seemed like a logical fit.  So instead of the &amp;#x27;Current&amp;#x27; notebook they recommend, I simply use a Current stack containing a notebook for each priority level.&lt;p&gt;I also use Powerbot to improve clipping emails from gmail.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the details don&amp;#x27;t matter and are easy to change.  The main point is, give GTD on Evernote a try, and you&amp;#x27;ll be glad you did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobo_mark</author><text>&amp;gt; It works on basically every platform&lt;p&gt;Except, you know, Linux :)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also quite slow and I&amp;#x27;d rather spend as little time as possible managing my time than waiting for the UI to load and having to mouse around for everything.&lt;p&gt;(Not to mention all those times where some of my notes were synchronized into oblivion, never to be found again)&lt;p&gt;I am much more effective using a hierarchy of text files and some simple macros to navigate it, works offline and it&amp;#x27;s incredibly easy to sync between machines.</text></comment>