{"id":112,"date":"2005-12-31T07:17:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T07:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/31\/getting-things-done\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T21:02:08","slug":"getting-things-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/12\/31\/getting-things-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Things Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-112\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0142000280\/qid=1136041906\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-6929490-8668718?n=507846&amp;s=books&amp;v=glance\" target=\"NewWindow\">Getting Things Done<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>David Allen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>267 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Penguin Books (January, 2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0142000280<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a very good book &#8211; it was recommended, as an aside, in an RSS news feed I read regularly (the main thrust was recommending a web-based list management site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasktoy.com\/\" target=\"NewWindow\">tasktoy<\/a>).  David Allen suggests that we spend too much mental effort remembering things we need to do, and too little time actually doing them.  So, he suggests a simple approach to getting work organized and then attacking it one action at a time which revolves around task lists, working on short (less-than-2-minute) items quickly, and then working on the next most important action first.<\/p>\n<p>I spent parts of two days during my holiday getting my office under control using these techniques &#8211; time will tell if there&#8217;s real payback or not, but I suspect there will be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-112\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 112);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-112\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-112\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Getting Things Done Author: David Allen Paperback: 267 pages Publisher: Penguin Books (January, 2003) ISBN: 0142000280 This is a very good book &#8211; it was recommended, as an aside, in an RSS news feed I read regularly (the main thrust was recommending a web-based list management site, tasktoy). David Allen suggests that we spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,378],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-time-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}