It has little to contribute about what to work on when and how to make that happen. I’m somewhat ADHD, so my problems are filtering my mass of ideas, and focusing on the ones that are most important, not most shiny. Tracking all my to-dos just results in my having lots of long lists of things I will never do. GTD has a teeny bit of this with their 50,000 foot through 10,000 foot review, but it mostly ignores the question of “how do I decide what to do, what to defer, and what do dump?”, and to me that’s the crux.
Contrast with something like “Eat That Frog!” which is about repeating again and again the simple message that if you focus your time working on the most useful task for your most important project, you will be much more productive. (Plus various heuristics for identifying such projects, such tasks, and building up the habit). It’s a very simple message, yet following it, for me, yields much greater productivity returns than GTD.
I was going to ask what your biggest complaints with Getting Things Done were, but then I saw that you have a “gtd” tag on your blog.
It has little to contribute about what to work on when and how to make that happen. I’m somewhat ADHD, so my problems are filtering my mass of ideas, and focusing on the ones that are most important, not most shiny. Tracking all my to-dos just results in my having lots of long lists of things I will never do. GTD has a teeny bit of this with their 50,000 foot through 10,000 foot review, but it mostly ignores the question of “how do I decide what to do, what to defer, and what do dump?”, and to me that’s the crux.
Contrast with something like “Eat That Frog!” which is about repeating again and again the simple message that if you focus your time working on the most useful task for your most important project, you will be much more productive. (Plus various heuristics for identifying such projects, such tasks, and building up the habit). It’s a very simple message, yet following it, for me, yields much greater productivity returns than GTD.