Action: Organized activity to accomplish an objective. The most important work or activity in a specific field or area. Next actions are the next physical steps you need to take to move a project. When you look at a project it can often be difficult to determine where to start. That’s why you take time [...]

Context The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting. That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else. GTD encourages the use of contexts to break down long and expansive to-do lists. Without them where would you start? What would you choose to do at any particular time? By breaking down your lists according [...]

Review: To examine with an eye to criticism or correction. Going over a subject again in study so as to fix it in the memory. The weekly review in GTD is one of the most critical elements of the entire methodology, and also one of the hardest to implement regularly. While most aspects of GTD [...]

Stuff: Property, as personal belongings or equipment; things. Worthless things or matter: to clean the stuff out of a closet. Stuff is often used as a catch-all term covering everything from thoughts bouncing around our heads to letters, voicemails, notes and a multitude of other things that potentially require you to do something with them, [...]

Organization: Something that has been made into an ordered whole. Conforming entirely to standards, rules, or demands. Organization is a key aspect of being productive. An unorganized individual is not able to see what needs doing at a quick glance. If you have to waste time sorting through piles of paperwork or just generally trying [...]