Move #6: Get Your Emails to Zero Every Day or So Move #5: Get Your In-Tray to Empty Every Day or So. ( Or do you prefer: 'Capture What’s on Your Mind with a Mind Sweep Regularly.' Move #3 Capture Your Thoughts & Ideas with a Mind Sweep Regularly. Move #2 Capture Next Actions and Ideas as They Occur, Especially in Meetings and Conversations. Move #1 Capture All of Your Incoming Paper & Stuff Your input will help make The GTD Workbookmore useful. If you edit this doc in MS Word, please turn on ‘Track Changes’, if you care to.

You can copy and edit this doc, and email it back to: Provide your comments in whatever way is most convenient for you. What do you think of the NAME of each move? (How could it be improved?)Ģ.Are these moves that you see as both the necessaryand sufficientones? (Please suggest any additional moves.)ģ.What do you think of this idea of teaching GTD via a list of specific activities (in addition to all the excellent current ways) ?Ĥ.Would you like to be included in additional surveys re tests of The GTD Workbook? You will not hurt our feelings!! We want this to be the best workbook possible.ġ. What do you think about them? Please be as direct as you can be. The benefit of breaking the methodology down into specific chunks is that it allows new users to learn GTD one specific activity at a time.īelow is the list of GTD moves. You can copy this post, and past it into an email or doc.įor the upcoming book, The GTD Workbook, we are using a different approach to learning and implementing GTD: the GTD methodology is taught via 15 specific procedures that David named “moves.” The term is comparable to yoga postures, or tennis strokes, ormartial arts moves.

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