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OxMUG meeting 8 January 2008
GTD: Getting things done
Nuclear Physics Lab, Keble Road, Oxford
Door prize:
PodWorks
Pixelmator
2Gb flash drive
News:
Faster Mac Pros and Xserves announced.
CD ripping legislation – slightly fairer use policies
UK iTunes Music Store TV deal almost finalised?
Sony moving away from DRM on music?
Getting Things Done (GTD): Paul Heritage Redpath and Graham Lee
Getting Things Done is a philosophy of time and task management, embodied initially in a book (and range of fun merchandise) from David Allen. Not the comedian.
Whaťs GTD?
Get everything out of your head.
Make decisions about actions required on stuff when it shows up—not when it blows up.
Organize reminders of your projects and the next actions on them in appropriate categories.
Keep your system current, complete, and reviewed sufficiently to trust your intuitive
choices about what you’re doing (and not doing) at any time.
GTD is a mental discipline, but some software can help: outliners, for example.
Whaťs an outliner?
A way to dump then organise ideas
In a hierarchy
With columns (e.g. checkboxes)
Alternate rows coloured
Numbered
OmniOutliner / Omnifocus from Omnigroup
Omnigraffle also good for mind maps
Notebook from Prancing Pony
Hot Tips
Turn off email
Check it at allocated times twice a day
Do one thing at a time
Multi-tasking is not productive
Make a list
Do “it” now! (where “it” is a do-able task)
Resources
Next meeting: 12 February 2008: Office apps