{"id":69,"date":"2012-03-18T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compoundsimplicity.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:13:56","slug":"productivity-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/productivity-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when I was a complete honk for <em>Getting Things Done<\/em>, aka GTD. I first read the book back around 1999 or so, when I was working in Org Dev for a megacorp. I&#8217;ve been implementing, tweaking, and falling off the wagon ever since. I still think GTD is the seminal work in the field of personal productivity, but there are other shining lights. Two of my favorite are Mark Forster&#8217;s <em>Do It Tomorrow<\/em> and Mark Hurst&#8217;s <em>Bit Literacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these days I&#8217;ve kind of got my productivity schtick figured out. Not to say that it doesn&#8217;t need tuning from time to time, but I&#8217;ve basically settled on my toolset. Because of that I don&#8217;t really poke around the old personal productivity blogs or pay much attention to that space at all. Even so, the last week brought three interesting productivity-related items to my attention. Without much comment, here they are:<\/p>\n<p>1. A drink company wrote a very thorough screed on using GTD with Evernote, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretweapon.org\/\">The Secret Weapon<\/a>. Lots of people have taken a crack at this setup, but this is the nicest tutorial I&#8217;ve seen. Evernote really can be a universal capture tool for many people.<\/p>\n<p>2. Mark Forster came out with a new time management system called Final Version. You can get the details by subscribing to his newsletter on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markforster.net\/\">his web site<\/a>. I&#8217;ve looked at it, and it&#8217;s pretty straightforward. No special tools needed, and it can be easily implemented with pencil and paper. Might be worth looking at if GTD gives you fits.<\/p>\n<p>3. Finally, speaking of GTD, David Allen has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/18\/business\/when-office-technology-overwhelms-get-organized.html?_r=3&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\">article in the current NYT<\/a> about the relevancy of GTD to today&#8217;s workers. Good reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when I was a complete honk for Getting Things Done, aka GTD. I first read the book back around 1999 or so, when I was working in Org Dev for a megacorp. I&#8217;ve been implementing, tweaking, and falling off the wagon ever since. I still think GTD is the seminal work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simplify","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-17","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}