Comments on: Tweaking Your GTD Implementation

By: Zen Habits

Zen Habits — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:16:59 +0000

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:53:52 +0000

Yes, you’ve got to make it your own, but don’t forget the point, you’re meant to be getting things done. I love tweaking my implementation. It’s not something I do outside of my system, though. Applying the GTD process to my tweaking helps to keep me going in the right direction. Use your current implementation to track your fiddling (I have a project to try five different calendar apps every month, for instance).

By: James

James — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:37:59 +0000

Thanks for the link. Not seen your site before, it’s very interesting!

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:44:37 +0000

Great post! I also wrote about my GTD implementation recently, and included a link to this post.

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:51:59 +0000

Michael, you have reminded me of a interesting point, you can tweak too much. I switched from paper and folder to index cards and it just didn’t work for me. I kept playing around with it to the point where my productivity dipped, as I did not have a fully functioning system in place. I will be covering this more in the future.

By: Michael Ramm

Michael Ramm — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:19:15 +0000

When I wrote this last week (or whenever it was), it seemed that both me and Jason were in a kind of strange state of un-productiveness. We both, it seems, like to tweak our system… but it looks like that was actually hindering our productivity. I did really good at not playing with my system as I stated in a recent post. I remarked that I would stick with that system through 2006, which I successfully accomplished. When the New Year rolled in, I felt that I needed to make a few changes that fall more in line with my workflow.

David Allen’s forums are crawling with people who constantly ask permission and there are a handful of experts who always reply with their feelings on what David would think. It is just frustrating to see people not understand that they have the power to do whatever needs to be done to get themselves more productive. They do not need to ask permission from anyone, especially if they are getting things done.