Tag: “Basic GTD”

According to The Threefold Model for Evaluating Daily Work defined by David Allen, a person may be held in one of these three types of activities at any time during a normal workday (1):

One of the greatest advantages of GTD is that it allows, from the beginning, to separate actionable stuff from things that have value but do not require doing anything, at least right now. This results in a much more clear and unclogged work area.

In addition to organizing your actions, you need a Project List to keep all those results that require more than one action step to get done. This is an index that will remind you that, even if you have defined any actions in this regard, there are still more action steps needed to reach the final result.

Once you have processed every action, the next step is to organize them in a way that is logical for you, so you can review them easily when you have time.

The Weekly Review is a key activity for GTD to work. The aim is to get a clean, clear, current and complete system, so you can firmly rely on it. You have to empty your mind again and ensure everything that happened in the past week is properly collected, processed and organized. More specifically, you must do the following: