David Allen, author of the often cited book Getting Things Done, broke down his system into very simple sections to make it easier to adopt.
He said the key points to GTD are to:
- Keep meaningful stuff out of your head
- Make action and outcome decisions about the stuff sooner than later
- Organize reminders of those items in easy to view places
- Review it all and keep it current
I have not read Getting Things Done yet, but I come across so many of its quotes, maxims, and applications on the web that I expect reading it would feel more like a review session than getting something for the first time.
With tools like Evernote, Google Tasks, Outlook, and others, getting things out of my head and organizing them are the easy parts. The fourth bullet is the hard one. Regularly reviewing the things on the lists to keep the important things at the top is challenging when everything feels important.
However, the real power of the GTD method is in getting things out of your head so it is free for use.
via GTD Times