Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

I must confess that a to-do once lived on one of my next action lists for three three years before I crossed it off. Three years. What was this monstrous task, you ask? Writing a PhD thesis, perhaps? No. It was to send a thank-you email that would have taken [...]

The weekly review is the linchpin of the Getting Things Done method. When I started GTD, I bypassed the weekly review, thinking it was unnecessary and that I could get by without it. Turns out I couldn’t. The weekly review is, fundamentally, a time to synchronize your system with real life — [...]

One of the key ideas of Getting Things Done, is the ‘next action’. Like much of GTD it’s a simple idea that makes a big difference.
Next actions are the steps you take to complete a project. For example, your project may be ‘sell my old CD collection. That’s a typical to-do list [...]

When I first read Getting Things Done four years ago, I didn’t know the profound impact it would have on me. I thought it was a good, though not extra-ordinary, book on organization. However, over time and through constant application of its principals, it is no hyperbole to say that Getting Thing Done [...]

When starting with Getting Things Done, the weekly review is the most hassle and seems the least important. Why, if you are following such a perfect system, do you even need a weekly review?
The dark secret of the weekly review is that what you actually need is an imperfect system. Life isn’t perfect, [...]