Two weeks of Getting Things Done

It’s been two weeks since I started adopting Getting Things Done.

My inbox has (always?) been a mess, but lately it had been growing to previously unknown levels of entropy.
I started again thinking about finding a way of managing my tasks and time in a really effective manner.

I guess I had this in background when I stumbled into NextAction while doing a routine-technology-search of the net. NextAction probably deserves a post of its own, along with others Web 2.0 projects & frameworks, but the point is that it did lead me to GettingThingsDone .

So I read a bit (I’ve still not finished the book), and decided to give it a try. I first intended to use NextAction, but I felt reluctant about how to bind its interface with the huge amount of emails that usually drive my work. So I decided to testdrive the method using the Outlook Add-in .

Two weeks after starting the trial period, some conclusions:

The method helps me. I’ve left my inbox cleared everyday (except yesterday, when I really felt exhausted and decided to go home). I hope to be able to make my weekly review on Monday-first time (maybe I’m already breaking some GTD rules? ;-) )

I still have to work on defining my own action set, so I can categorize/discard every inbox item in a semi-automated way.

There’s some strange behaviour with the plugin, regarding the integration between tasks and action-emails. I’ve got to investigate this point.