Getting Things Done - Revisit: Getting Done?

I started the road to Getting Things Done last year and revisited the material recently.

First, I thought reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done book, taking notes on it, and executing on its ideas would be enough to make one a master do-er.

How wrong I am.

Things I did “get done”:

• reference system - I love looking up material that I filed
• project files - force me to categorize projects - work vs. personal
• physical filing system - great way to organize papers
• inbox - put new things here!

Things I did badly:

• inbox - always “building up”
• project files - “building up”
• getting things done

That last point hits hard, because the whole idea of investing the effort into “Getting Things Done” was to… get. things. done.

I do see benefits of the Getting Things Done system - I am falling back into my old habits. The inbox and project files just building up is not a good sign.

Scheduling GTD events helps me integrate GTD better.