Designing a GTD-Style Task Manager in Evernote | GTD DC AUG 2017
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Designing a GTD-Style Task Manager in Evernote | GTD DC AUG 2017
Date: 16 AUG 2017
Attendees: Ray, Karl, Bruce, Ken, Ke, Susan
Location: Kst Cosi
Challenges Forum
Topic: Leading when it's not comfortable
Productivity website on calendar (Rays): Covey does Leadership webinar
Covey: 4 disciplines of execution (Book)
One minute manager (Book)
Management takes more than a minute - short read
Total quality Management - more of a deep dive resource
Topic: Preparing to re-start school
Is your system setup to have space for school?
Checklists to set up being prepared
Remember what tools/actions conducted in the past that brought success to the course and document
Divide and conquer the set up into manageable pieces
Book: The Unscheduled Decide on when you are going to work on the actual class vs planning & preparing
Topic: Contexts; feel it's helpful to drill down the list of actions but need helping deciphering how to filter
Ray’s definition; an efficiency model; example; calls/emails; groupings
Gathering things under this model
Can cluster things based on project vs pure context list
Using todoist ‘labels’ have context setup but find that rarely use them
Main Presentation: Designing a GTD-Style Task Manager in Evernote presented by Ray
This was live DEMO of a proof of concept hence no actual notes for the presentation
Resources Sharing: Apps for Managing/Outsourcing Chores
Outsourcing; taskrabbit - physical chores
Fancy Hands- virtual assistant
Using Task manager's - checklists & location for reminders
Color coding, size orientation
10% Happier Book
Additional resources discussed:
GTD Member Ken launched site: https://cherrytask.com/ (A Productivity Blog) and please check out his articles on GTD via Medium
The Top Three Problems with Getting Things Done - http://bit.ly/2to6X5v
The (Other) Top Three Problems with Getting Things Done - http://bit.ly/2vgiVLP
What do GTD and Toddlers Have in Common? - http://bit.ly/2u8dAI6
Why I hate the 2-Minute Rule - http://bit.ly/2tDuz1e
IQTell Was Unique — Now It's (Almost) Gone - https://medium.com/@ken_72982/iqtell-was-unique-fff4e10808b3
Marie Condo: Con Marie - life changing magic of tidying up
Announcements:
Prod Book Group
Reduced quarterly calls
Books:
Last Saturday in Sept Paradox of choice
Dec - One year to organized financial life - Start reading now
#Prodchat every Wednesday 8pm on Twitter
Slideshow more compact than the textual transcript
ProductivityCast - soliciting feedback for Ray and Augusto Pinaud new podcast
In conjunction with Vital Smart - The Virtual GTD Group (Not the study group)
9/19 - in ADDITION to our normal meet up
Habitica - uses gamification for tasks & habits; limited to 30 people; email if you would like to join GTD’ers questing and getting things done in a fun manor