8/15/2023 0 Comments Gtd context list![]() ![]() That tells me that the author also believes that that flowchart is essential to the methodology.) (I just thumbed through my print copy of the 2001 edition very quickly and found at least four instances of that flowchart - just the exact same full-page diagram, repeated in multiple places in the book so that you always have it handy. That’s still relevant and universal, regardless of what form the input takes, what tool you use to process it, or what form your reference material takes. It’s just a way of making decisions about managing sources of input and then processing inputs into actions, reference material, or trash. When I look at the workflow chart, which I consider the spine of the methodology, I don’t see anything dated in there. But I know that was never a need that I had, and I had (and continue to have) no difficulty using his methodology to manage a largely travel-free existence. GTD just gives you a tool for being honest with yourself about how to consider that mix to decide where to direct your attention in the moment.Īlso it was pretty obvious that Allen’s own implementation was tailored heavily toward a job that requires a lot of travel, at a time when contexts mattered a lot. You don’t have to practice GTD to know when you don’t have enough time to finish something, when you can’t think straight, or when you need to consider which thing will get you fired if you don’t get it moving right now. They made sense for thousands of years before context mattered, and they have outlived context as a useful factor.Įveryone still has to consider and abide by those other three factors when deciding what to do next, even if they don’t know that they’re doing so. ![]() The other three factors he lists are time available, energy available, and priority. I find that the Agenda context is the only one that has any real value in my system these days, but I’ll bet it wouldn’t take much effort to find a way to ditch that context and find a different way to make sure I get those actions done.īut I also don’t think not using contexts is a significant deviation from the methodology. You don’t have to look very hard to find people talking about how communications technology has taken a lot of the value out of using contexts in any meaningful way. He includes context as one of four primary factors to use when deciding what action to do next at any given moment. I do think the examples of possible implementations that David Allen used in the book and in his talks have aged in places, but I don’t believe the foundations of the methodology have aged at all. And I’m interested in reading about how others view it. But now you’ve made me want to read the book again. My answer is no, I don’t think it has aged. ![]()
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