About a year ago, I was browsing my app store for a nice tool to help organize my daily life. While doing so I stumbled upon a tool called OmniFocus. While reading the details in the description of this app and browsing through the reviews, I came across this acronym I hadn't seen before.
Reviews containing things like "As a true GTD practitioner, this tool is a must have…" and "The perfect GTD software out there" made me curious about this mysterious acronym people were talking about.
GTD, or as I found out after some google research, Getting Things Done is a method advocated by a guy called David Allen. In one of his books he gives a detailed description of his method and how to implement it.
Although I'm usually a bit skeptical about so-called self-help guru's trying to sell you their book, I've decided to give this one a go. While at my job the number of projects I couldn't get done was slowly growing, I thought it might be a good investment of time to read Allen's book.
I became familiar with GTD as a method designed to help you organize your everyday life at home and at the job. And the great thing about it, is that you can implement this method by some fairly simple rules and strategies. You can even implement small parts of it to slowly get used to each change.
After having read David Allen's book and trying out some of the methods discussed within, I decided that it was time to setup a digital tool that could help me further improve my system. While remembering where it all started for me, I got back to the app store and decided to go for OmniFocus.
I don't want to bother you with any details on the GTD method itself (just read the book!). However, OmniFocus is truly GTD compatible. It allows you to create and manage all your projects, errands and deadlines. At the same time, it is supported on a range of devices including phones, ipads, and smartwatches.
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If you need to get organized in life or on the job, I can truly recommend the Getting Things Done method and read David Allen's book. And if you would like to go digital, it is worth it to look into some good GTD compatible software! In my opinion, after doing some research and having hands-on experience, OmniFocus is a great candidate!
I am not affiliated with anything related to David Allen or OmniFocus, nor anyone who is profiting from the sale of anything related to GTD or OmniFocus. The only reason for writing this post is to share knowledge that might be useful and interesting to others. This information helped me personally and therefore I think it is worth sharing.
