Tag: “Organize”

We have already established that to be well organized we need a clear and intuitive relationship between the things we need to organize and the place where we put them. In other words, everything must be in its place.

Given the large number of things that can attract our attention throughout the day, and given their variable and often ambiguous nature — tasks, information, ideas, messages, emails, conversations, memories, thoughts, things to be determined —, it becomes necessary to have a kind of extended mind that allows us to release the pressure from our head so that it can devote itself to more productive things.

When I have to explain to someone in a few minutes what Getting Things Done (the GTD methodology) is, what it is about or what it consists of, I have a hard time focusing on a more or less complete answer in a short space of time. In the end, I almost always end up explaining the basics of the methodology so that the listener does not feel overwhelmed, and I am left with the feeling that I have not conveyed a real or complete idea of ​​the concept.

Last week we launched a new option in our web application to help our users plan the most complicated projects in a natural and intuitive way. In this article we are going to delve a little deeper into the natural planning process.

In the previous article we saw how to do the transformation process that allows you to give a category to each of the items you have previously captured, according to their nature and what you want to do about them: trash, someday/maybe, reference material, action, project. This transformation process is called Clarify within the GTD methodology.