Next, I love that you only have one option: Note. If you’ve been reading these articles for any period of time, you know I’m cheap and unashamed of that fact, haha. Today I’m going to tell you why I love Google Keep as my list manager and you should too!įirst, it’s free. If you can trust it to do so, then you can greatly reduce anxiety and stress in your life because you know exactly what you have to do at any given moment. But, the key is you have to trust it to contain all of your open loops. Your collection tool can be anything, a pen and paper, a camera, whatever. It’s the collection tool I use to keep organized and stay productive. Again, I think this makes me great at my job - I have to keep good notes to compensate and I can’t hold a grudge to save my life.
Now, I need GTD because I have the memory of a goldfish. I must keep reminders to remind me to do them and dedicate time to reviewing my commitments to organize and prioritize them. I must clarify exactly what my commitment is to that open loop and decide what I have to do, if anything, to make progress toward fulfilling it. If I had to sum up GTD in brief it would boil down to these three points:Īnything I consider unfinished or an open loop must be captured in my list manager. I drank the Kool Aid a couple of years ago so now I’m making a batch for all of you! But that’s ok because I’m a disciple of GTD. I think it’s something that makes me great at my job but it also means my to do list is a mile long. I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time saying “no” to people. To me, a good day is a day where I close more than I open. From the moment you get out of bed in the morning to the second your brain goes to sleep at night you are either opening new loops or closing existing ones.
In today’s world, we don’t think about all of the loops we are opening on a daily basis. Anything you feel like you need to do is an open loop which can only be closed by completing the action or deleting the loop.
These could be anything in your life: “I need to put my socks in the hamper”, “I have to call Janet when I get back to the office”, “end world hunger”, etc. In the book, Getting Things Done (GTD), David Allen, ( Productivity Consultant) opines that one of the major difficulties in modern life is all of the “open loops” we all have.Īn open loop is anything pulling at our attention that doesn't belong where it is, the way it is. We are going to talk about Google Keep, a simple to do list, note taking, and picture storing app that will help you get more work done. This month in Apps for Success we’re going to focus on getting things done.
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