Great article series. A real eye-opener for getting back on track with the dreaded weekly review. Thanks!

You article helped me to become conscious of the difficulties I was facing with GTD.

Thank you again.

Sarkunarajah S

I'm running it even leaner now :) I have completed abandoned my attempt to implement GTD as such. It's simply to rigid for my use.

I think that the most important point that I have learned form my GTD period is this one. If you can do it quickly then do it now! Don't stockpile stuff to do.

The idea about writing stuff down... well... it can also be a trap. You risk ending up spending to much time handling enormous inventories of trivial tasks that aren't all that important.

I do a kind of GTD today, but I have totally dropped the idea about writing down that someday/maybe @hardware i might want to buy staples. It's just a complete waste of time in my opinion. I you wan't to spend time on those kind of acitivities then organize your sock drawer instead :)

The problem about GTD, I think, is that it doesn't put enough emphasis on the triage part of task handling. It's in there in the gtd thinking, it's just drowned out by all the talk about trivial office supply optimization stuff.

I use Things now a days, and only for the important high priority stuff. There's no someday/maybe cut hairs in ears stuff in there. Once a week i look at the list of projects that I have going, and consider which project will need attention. The other ones gets scheduled to start in 7 days, so all tasks relating to these disappear. That allows me to focus.

Thanks you for reading.

• Jens Poder

I'm curious about the uncomplicated GTD setup you are running now. I tried to run a GTD system with various tools/software/PDA and failed to implement it completely due to too much overhead and MUDA. Hope to know how your new lean GTD works.

Andrew

I'm not doing it quite the way it's proposed in the lean gtd series. But the basic idea has sort of ingrained itself into my workflow. I will review the part of system that needs reviewing at the time it feels important, not on preset dates.

I think the main value of my Lead GTD work has been to get rid of a lot of the proces overhead that I used to have. It has become second nature to me to cut stuff from GTD flow. The weekly review batch and proces has been one of them.

Thanks you for commenting. Good luck with implementing.

Regards

Jens Poder