A GTD Eureka moment!

Published by neil on January 28th, 2007

The key to making GTD (Get Things Done) work is to keep it simple. The biggest downfall, particularly for anyone with ADD, is gettin more wrapped up in the process of GTD, than actually using to solve the day-to-day balancing of work, personal, and other miscellaneous tasks.

For a few months now I have solved my task-by-task problems through daily manual updates of each unfinished task in a book… a real book… a Moleskine Cahier in fact. By having to write each uncompleted task into a new page each day, my ADD brain cannot simply filter a task’s existence out as just ‘another bit of information noise I don’t really have to deal with right now’. This has developed from a simple list to a - still uncomplicated - managed list of tasks which really does help me to Get Things Done. It is working well and my life, which these days consists of juggling far more individual items than previously, is significantly less task-pressured.
The big issue overshadowing this workable analogue solution is how to manage the bigger picture: I’ve got all the trees in place, but how to keep track of all the forests.

Today I finally formulated a project-level solution, and brought the concept into the real world through a superb practical suggestion by jEN. It’s portable, it is compatible with the task-level Cahier, and it is flexible enough to accommodate changes. It is… brrrrr-tsch! another Cahier! OK, so it is a little more than that, but it fulfils the primary criteria in managing a workable GTD solution: keep it simple!

Now that the complete solution - for me - looks to be in place, it is time to write the whole thing down and share it with whoever is interested. That is going to be one big post (or two), so be warned.

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