{"id":572,"date":"2009-05-29T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/poojanblog\/2009\/05\/my-gtd-setup\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:56:50","slug":"my-gtd-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/my-gtd-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"My GTD Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, I\u2019ll present what I\u2019ve been using for the last month or so to facilitate GTD. My conclusion is that GTD is meant to be customizable, and it\u2019s sometimes better to develop your own (fully custom) solution than trying to adapt someone else\u2019s to your values.<\/p>\n

I recently posted about both what I was doing wrong in my previous GTD systems<\/a> and what I learned from a recent David Allen seminar<\/a> and promised this description.<\/p>\n

I do use a computer for this system. This post doesn\u2019t contain the technical details: that isn\u2019t for everyone and I\u2019ll detail that in a follow-up post.<\/p>\n

I finally bit the bullet and came up with a system that\u2019s computer-based. I didn\u2019t use any pre-packaged software to do it. I wrote my own \u201ccomputer program\u201d (a very short and simple python script). The important lesson\u2014that took me a couple years to realize\u2014is that GTD is meant to be customized<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s<\/em> why all the pre-packaged software solutions I tried didn\u2019t work: there\u2019d always be something that bothered me that I wanted to fix. I\u2019d spend lots of time trying to fit a square in a circle hole and it wouldn\u2019t work. The ones that were customizable ended up being time-consuming, because modifying them to do what I want still took a lot of time.<\/p>\n

In short, there are things about GTD that you care about that I don\u2019t. Adopting something that emphasizes someone else\u2019s values can prove more laborious that developing your own.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s the high-level of how I collect and process:<\/p>\n

First, the buckets:<\/p>\n