Getting Things Done (GTD) is a personal productivity system developed by David Allen and published in a book of the same name. GTD is described as a time management system. Allen states "there is an inverse relationship between things on your mind and those things getting done".The GTD method rests on the idea of moving all items of interest, relevant information, issues, tasks and projects out of one's mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items with known time limits. This allows one's attention to focus on taking action on each task listed in an external record, instead of recalling them intuitively.First published in 2001, a revised edition of the book was released in 2015 to reflect the changes in information technology during the preceding decade.
Genuinely good organizational advice wrapped in an obnoxious self-helpy presentation, all explicitly written to a target audience of cishet white male executives with assistants and maids and summer houses. Useful if you can grit your teeth and push through it, totally understandable if you can't.
The methodology is simple yet effective. However, the book feels unnecessary bloated and repeats itself multiple times. If you look up a blogpost on the GTD method, you will get the same information and value just like reading the book.
