In the nineties when I used to use a Franklin Planner, there was a routine that was somewhat like this:https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-spend-the-first-10-minutes-of-your-day/You'd make a daily task list and prioritize it.I use GTD now, and the w

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Anonymous 11/17/14 (Mon) 00:38:18 No.89

In the nineties when I used to use a Franklin Planner, there was a routine that was somewhat like this:

https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-spend-the-first-10-minutes-of-your-day/

You'd make a daily task list and prioritize it.

I use GTD now, and the way that it has you approach the tasks is more dynamic (you maintain your lists so that at any given moment you can find what you can do next, which you do throughout the day), but I think it would be satisfying to at least make a preliminary list of tasks that you'd like to get done today in response to this question posed in the article:

>The day is over and I am leaving the office with a tremendous sense of accomplishment. What have I achieved?

That way, at the end of the day, you can actually feel that sense of accomplishment that you planned out earlier. I don't suppose that there is any planning software that combines GTD with an auxilliary daily list, is there? GTD eschews a daily task list simply because your priorities change as you go through the day, but your complete list can get rather big and I'd like to pare it down at the beginning of the day to the most important things if possible.

Anonymous 11/17/14 (Mon) 00:39:25 No.90

OP here: also, time management software/methodology general.

Anonymous 11/19/14 (Wed) 22:51:25 No.94

>>89
>The day is over and I am leaving the office with a tremendous sense of accomplishment. What have I achieved?

Gonna have to try asking myself that. I tend to just start working on what is easiest, but that doesn't always necessarily give me the biggest sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.

What do you currently use to manage your GTD? Pen/paper?

Anonymous 11/20/14 (Thu) 03:39:33 No.95

>>94

I use an Android application named "Due Today", and it integrates with ToodleDo, which I use to store the lists in the cloud. I've used this combination for four years, and it's decent, but there are a few more things I'd like out of ToodleDo. It's concept of a "project" doesn't really match the GTD concept of a "project" (an effort with more than one step) and is more like a "category", so it's bulky to maintain. What I did was just use the "planning" task status to mean "project" and put "next action" or other sub-tasks under it. I'd like more than one level of sub-task, as well. If anyone has good recommendations that fit better with GTD, I'd like to hear about them. Every now and then I look around for something new but there are so many mediocre choices, or ones that don't really do things much differently, that it starts to seem like a waste of time to wade through them without a good recommendation from someone else.

Anonymous 11/23/14 (Sun) 17:50:41 No.104

>>95
Might want to look into LifeRPG: http://www.reddit.com/r/liferpg

I think it can do multiple levels of sub-tasks. It's Windows only but the dev says he's working on an Android version.

Anonymous 12/08/14 (Mon) 18:20:32 No.131

>>95
Link in the OP is giving me a 500 error.

I use Wunderlist for my day to day tasks.
Easy to use, cloud based and cross platform. Lists are the categories and each item on the list can be sub divided into smaller tasks.

I believe that it can be used to share and work collaboratively on lists but have not looked into it.

Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 04:03:27 No.134

>>131

It's working for me now so it may have been a temporary error. 500 is "internal server error" so whoever hosts the Harvard Business Review may have been having some problems.

Anonymous 12/14/14 (Sun) 05:32:49 No.160

>>95

Apparently there are some people who swear by evernote as a GTD platform.

Personally, It didn't feel right to me, but neither does toodledo, which I also use, with their android app. I was using Ultimate Task List.

Anonymous 12/14/14 (Sun) 06:40:06 No.162

>>160

Yeah, I hear about methods people use that just sound like they're doing things that involve a lot of manual steps and moving things around, and then I hear about people who give up because it seems like a lot of work to them, and I wonder if the latter group was also doing the kinds of things that the former group does and it really was a lot of work.

In the original book he talks about shoehorning it into Outlook using folders and that already sounded "ick", but I guess there weren't tools built for it yet.

Something that struck me as funny after I read the Getting Things Done book is that I went to the website and saw them charging some huge amount to join some premium service. The figure that's coming up in my mind is $49.99 a month but I could be way off of that*. I just started thinking that either people start thinking there is important information in there just because they are charging too much, or that it's for people who really don't know something about figuring out how the ideas behind the basic routines can be applied to the work they'd like to get done or something.

*OK, I just looked it up, and they want you to pay $48 a month, so I really wasn't too far off:

https://gettingthingsdone.com/store/home.php?cat=248

I think another dynamic there is that maybe people think that if they make themselves pay that much, that investing that much money will by itself make them want to get something out of it and motivate them. I guess that might work for some people. And for others, that kind-of money isn't much for them.

>hfw