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GTD - Getting Things Done with online tools - what is it?

November 14, 2006 at 11:46 pm

I’m a fan of GTD - Getting Things Done - The Art Of Stress-free Productivity. It’s simply a technique to getting things done and more efficiently.

“- GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of their mind and get them recorded somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate fully on actually performing those tasks.”

I can promise you - it really works and I suggest you check it out.

“Now what does this has to do with the My Uninstalled Life blog?” - you might ask. Well, since I’m a fan of it and before starting this blog I was stuck with Outlook 2003 and moving to Outlook 2007 (BTW, Melissa and Simon have good posts on GTD and Outlook 2007 without plug-ins). And since I wanted to move to an uninstalled desktop - keeping everything online - I decided to see how I could approach the GTD technique only with online tools.

So this category will help me with the search of applying GTD with online tools. If you see any articles/services that might help me in this search - let me know.

Alvaro

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 4:18 am

Maybe you’ll like this…

http://gtdgmail.com/

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Cheerio

Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

Check out this excellent app!
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Monkey_GTD

Robert

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 5:11 am

I think you might want to check out http://www.vitalist.com.

ИБП

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 am

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