5 GTD App Design Principles with Eric Mack
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Creator of the second-best productivity tool for GTD®, Eric Mack is grounded in GTD and knowledge management. David Allen and John Forrister recently talked with Eric about his five principles of productivity software design, in the hope that it might inspire future designers to incorporate some of these principles into their applications.
Eric is also doing a survey on workstyles and key frustrations. We encourage the GTD community to take his survey. We did, and found it helpful to us in understanding how we work, what we can do to improve, and more.
Key Frustrations and Work Styles Survey: bit.ly/40WPZHl
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Oh gosh - just found out there's a new GTD book coming out on working with teams & GTD! So excited & this should be news everywhere!
Can you link to this news?
@@mlte2660 22:57
Love seeing TheBrain in Wander Mode in the background. That's my go to GTD app!
I would humbly suggest that you two do a critique, however brief/limited, of the two apps that attempt to adhere the closest to GTD principles--namely, Nirvana and Facilethings. That way, at least, the public would get a sense of "the state of the art" for what's out there in the market, judged by the two persons most qualified to render a judgment. And this would all be for the benefit of us the public.
Lastly, the critical insight I believe is that ultimately GTD is an emotional management system, more so than even a task or project mgmt method. That is why it is so difficult for persons to personally implement it in a sustained and long-lived fashion. Our innate emotions inevitably and easily lead us to "fall of the gtd wagon." A good gtd app needs to embed features that nudge the user instinctively to apply in a disciplined manner all the foundational principles of gtd, such as: consistent capture for engendering trust in the system, regular clarification which can be mentally taxing, starting with the desired outcome in mind for each next action, weekly (and daily) reviews which are indispensable, and being mindful of the control vs vision dynamic.
Nirvana is feature complete. It gets far too little attention.
Ater listening to 40 mins of this podcast, there is this ying and yang about how much is enough or not enough in terms of features which could be useful in one sense and or start a friction fire when the user energy level has either peaked or dropped. David in the years of listening to you, you said many times that intuition plays a deciding factor on what comes next based on the current situation on getting things done. Why would you want a piece of software or a feature to dictate your next action, the tool has allowed you to structure the next actions to move forward and it is up the user to start doing based on time, energy, context etc. If the software has the ability to show everything that is captured, processed or not processed or unclassified, tag or not tagged etc with the press of a button, that is the ultimate review one needs to correct the behaviors missed. Don't get too feature happy, it is a simple and effective process to follow. For many years David told us GTD can be done with pen and paper! Simply put, review more often until you become bullet proof at clarifying and determining next actions!
Why don’t you take ownership of the software development project for GTD? Similar to Rhyder Carroll and the Bullet journal Method? You are the brain behind the GTD method and the best person to drive such a development.
It sounds like they tried but reached some roadblocks/dead-ends because of the need to try to integrate with the other software most of us use (Microsoft Office, etc.) as I assume it's not so easy to fully replace those and when trying to create a frictionless flow between any GTD software and those other software apps we use, I guess they reached a conclusion that it wasn't possible at that time. I guess this is a plea for those big players such as Microsoft to integrate the GTD system more fully into their software suites instead.
7:04 it's been done for 15 years. I read rhe first book several times and created a paper system until I found mylifeorganized. It's literally gtd in application format
On the request to make suggestions/share ideas, I wonder if there's a way to use the newer features of Microsoft Power Automate and Power Apps etc. to create the aspects of the GTD system that are missing from Microsoft Office/365 suite? The MS Power platform tools seem to be able to link between the rest of the software in a customizable way, so perhaps a lot of the features and aspects described and desired could be built using those tools without needing to depart from Microsoft's suite?
The same! Completed confused by disappearing items from today list in todo MS app next day.
I wonder if one way to solve it in To Do is to create a List called 'My Day' and use it for today's tasks but it won't then automatically wipe them at midnight, and you can set your own rules around how you use that list? It's a workaround, of course.
Tou could use a spreadsheet for your gtd system and create some formating rules tl do that
@@iangrant3615 my answer to you is below, sorry
A lot of the features she’s talking about can be done in OmniFocus. I use OmniFocus 2. I heard 3 is too complicated. I made a button that shows me all projects without ‘next actions’.
I use Microsoft To Do. The 'My Day' feature is great but the unfortunate reset at midnight is something I would rather have an option to switch off. That would also solve the problem of trying to plan for the next day in the evening. Now whatever I plan will reset at midnight. The only way around that is to assign the next day as due date which I don't like as if I don't do that action it will then have this red missed due date. Otherwise I find To Do a nice piece of software and it's free.
Very much looking for the GTD for teams book! Thank you for your work David!
Another lead is a ‘next action’ without a ‘context’.
I followed the first GTD book = GTD in paper version.
Then I just digitised it = OneNote. It's just paper principles on computer/tablet/mobile screen.
OneNote + calendar.
51:00 Yes, exactly what I wrote.
Honestly, any additional feature you use makes you dependent on it and on that software/program/app. As an IT worker I know how bad can be to rely on our work, IT itself changes very quickly. Even MS makes changes with that OneNote (and I'm not very happy about that). Paper will never changes, so your workflow with it almost either.
I'm also trying app Joplin now, feels almost like OneNote but it could be more stable in longterm since it's opensource and for free.