# Anyone using Getting Things Done?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-using-getting-things-done/400977 "2007-04-20T18:38:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-using-getting-things-done/400977/1 "2007-04-20T18:38:20Z")

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I get the Lifehacker RSS feed, which is often full of very useful tips, and it seems that all the cool kids are using Getting Things Done and yapping about their 43 Folders and their Hipster PDAs and etc, etc, etc. Well, I was trying to work a sort of tickler file for a while (the SHE thing), and I definately need help in being more productive, especially around the house, and _especially_ if the boyfriend and I are going to go forward with this starting a business thing. So I picked up David Allen’s book today, and I wanted to know, does anybody here use GTD or a modified version thereof? What do you do? Does it work for you? What tools do you use it with? Do you use it for work stuff or home stuff or both? I’d appreciate any insight into the matter.

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-using-getting-things-done/400977/2 "2007-04-20T19:34:32Z")

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I Get Things Done by using paper lists, my pda, and my Outlook calendar (work). I don’t know any other way. Is there a link for this think you speak of?

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-using-getting-things-done/400977/3 "2007-04-20T19:45:51Z")

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Sorry, I guess I’ve been reading too much about it and wrote an incomprehensible thread!

[This](http://www.davidco.com/) is the creator’s website, which has some stuff on it.

[Tihs](http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done/) is an introduction to it on [43folders.com](http://43folders.com), which is a blog and wiki dedicated to the system.

And of course, [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done) is the Wikipedia article.