Productivity and GTD resources

I have become a fan of Getting Things Done and using productivity as a way to clear your mind out and reduce anxiety by collecting everything that is cluttering up our minds. I am currently using Gmail and Remember the Milk. I tried Mail.app and Mail tags but I think Gmail does it better. Maybe as I get busier I’ll find other ways that meet my needs better, but this solution is simple and free and it works.

My productivity tip

If you like the following sites, subscribe to them in an RSS reader. Try Google Reader to get started. It is free and works well. Instead of having to go to each site separately to see if there are new articles or updates, the reader goes to the sites for you and gets the newest updates. You just have to go to your readers homepage and you can read all these sites from there. It is much easier and certainly faster.

• Lifehacker is a great site about productivity but not related solely to work, it includes life as well, hence the name.
• Zen Habits is a cool site about living more simply. By doing this you wind up being more productive. It too covers much more than just work related productivity.
• 43folders is the grand daddy of GTD sites, yes it is even more useful than David Allen’s own GTD site. This is for the hardcore fans but for those softies among us, there are always tricks we can learn from and especially heads up on new software.
• Remember the Milk is a zippy little web based application, AJAX based, that is simple and straightforward to use, but offers incredible power and flexibility. You can integrate it with Gmail to streamline your “stuff” collecting efforts.
• Gmail really offers the best in a free solution. Search don’t Sort is the mantra. Why delete emails when you can archive them, tag them, and find them among thousands of others, at any time. You can use POP to download your copies locally if you are worried about “living in the clouds”.
• Of course it wouldn’t be a productivity list without David Allen in it. He is the original creator of the Getting Things Done system. It works wonders and truth be told can be flexible and modified to meet your needs.