The Syndicate

Anyone else here know or have heard of the life management system known as Getting Things Done or GTD, popularized by David Allen?


A brief summary, it's a system where one takes all their thoughts, ideas, projects, and ideas, and rather than storing them in your brain, documenting and organizing them in a separate place, such as on a computer (there are many applications out there for doing this).

Most people do this to an extent. For example, if you have a Dentist Appointment, you'll put that on your calendar. Where this deviates is when you document less tangible things. For example, if one thinks "I need a new cast iron skillet", they might not do anything about it beyond this thought. Instead, by the GTD system, one would take that idea and document it somewhere, to be reviewed later.



This is kind of a bare-bones explanation for this system, but what I'm curious if anyone else is familiar with it, or uses it, or thinks it's just utter baloney. And if you do use it, have you found it effective?