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POPSGTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done folks, I have tried a simple and elegant tool which I like more than any other thicker tool that I have tried. MonkeyGTD - awesome features - built on TiddlyWiki - works from my USB (also known as an extension of my body) - and preserves the original elegance (terminology, philosophy, etc) of GTD. Frankly I love it. check it out... It's way better than many/most of the ones listed here. well - RTM does come close with it's gears based version - and I really love the way it parses dates intelligently - but that's more a task manager function than a GTD function. But if you ask me to pick , I will choose MonkeyGTD! (though, I need to admit, the learning curve is more for MonkeyGTD if you havenot used a tiddly before)
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POPSSelf Proclaimed Multitaskers Aren't that Good at Multitasking
Anyone who claims they can multitask is LYING. The human brain cannot multitask, PERIOD. You might think you're multitasking, but you are really switching between tasks in your brain. Every time you switch tasks, your brain has to reload the context of what it was last doing on that task. This is not a big deal for small tasks, as the state information is not that much. But the bigger (conceptually) a task is, the longer it takes to reload all the state information into your brain, and the bigger the efficiency hit against you is. If you find that you can do things no problem by switching tasks, it most likely means that what you're doing is not that mentally demanding, or you are not being effective in what you're doing. A perfect example is if you are surfing the web, watching TV, and twittering at the same time. You might be able to do all 3 of those tasks at once, but no one can argue that any of those things requires more than a sliver of brainpower.
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POPSPutting the "P" in Productivity The one who spends an entire meeting checking email also does some damage, as does the person who reads their email and Tweets his buddies while you are talking with them on the phone. In other words, their bad habits ruin their chances of being productive, and the latest technology only makes it easier for them to include others in the destruction. I worked with a telecom company once in the late 1990’s in which everyone had a cell-phone. That was not a problem by itself. Unfortunately, their executives developed a bad habit of answering the device whenever it rang, regardless of what else was happening around them. This meant that in any meeting, anyone could disappear into their cell-phones, even if they happened to be speaking. They’d simply stop in mid-sentence and answer their phone… without knowing who was calling. The effect when they returned was predictable — “What was I saying again?” As a result, meetings would drag, taking twice as long as they required.
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