Forty-three folders
David Allen doesn’t say anything though about what to do with classified materials.
Orange Crate Art
Cal Newport on Getting Things Done
A long and not especially satisfying New Yorker piece by Cal Newport: “The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.”
Twenty-eight tools
Luke Leighfield, writer, lists twenty-eight tools he uses to get things done.
Books about notebooks
The promises that books about notebooks make are appealing: follow this system to greater autonomy, creativity, and peace of mind. But I balk at the idea of reading a book to learn how to keep a notebook.
Eleanor Roosevelt on attention
No multitasker, she.
At the CPG Co.
Life at the Continental Paper Grading Co.
Recently updated
Ways to say “No.”
Busy, busier
At the Atlantic, James Fallows interviews David Allen.
Rule 7 and other rules
“The only rule is work”: John Cage or Corita Kent?
Henry, getting things done
Swipe swipe, done.
David Allen in the New York Times
A crash course in the practices described at greater length in Getting Things Done .
Improved to-do lists
Sue Shellenbarger offers some advice for making workable lists.
“Plotnik’s mantra of follow-up”
“NOTHING HAPPENS WHEN IT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN WITHOUT WELL-TIMED REMINDERS.”
three.sentenc.es
A strategy for contending with stacks of e-mail
At work in the Intermezzo
A place to work, away from home
Van Dyke Parks, getting things done
A memo that got results
Sue Shellenbarger on time-management (again)
Revisiting Franklin-Covey, GTD, Pomodoro
Sue Shellenbarger on time-management
Trying out FranklinCovey's Focus, GTD, and the Pomodoro Technique
Dr. Bronner, productivity guru
Dr. Bronner and Getting Things Done
David Allen: "the shudder of the world"
Getting Things Done author lays off 40% of his consulting firm's staff
Abraham Lincoln, getting things done
Advice from Lincoln on getting things done, circa 1850
"You gotta get up in the morning"
Spike Lee on getting things done
NowDoThis
Simple online tool for tracking to-dos
SimplyNoise
A free online white-noise generator
No
Link to Ramona Creel's "20 Ways to Say No"
Managing attention
Do you have a never-ending list? Do you manage your time? Do you manage minutes, tasks, and lists? Do you start each day with a list that ha...
Messy desk
Thought and work are unpredictable, varying, and ambiguous. They're messy. Why shouldn't your desk be messy too? Eric Abrahamson and David H...
Teaching disorganized students
Ana Homayoun tutors disorganized teenagers: She requires her clients to have a three-ring, loose-leaf binder for each academic subject, to d...
Tool to limit browsing
An online timer
Levenger Pocket Briefcase, revised
A simple modification brings this tool into almost anyone's price range