Results tagged “4ds” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

My thoughts about David Allen's 2009 book, Making It All Work, an extension to Getting Things Done. I also make a connection to some of my other work, beyond the obvious organizing and prioritizing that come from the book.

With apologies to my dear friend Luis Suarez and his goal of eliminating email, there are just times when email does the job fairly well.

Craig Roth has an interesting take on the usual "information overload" article which provides an "information overload 101" course. Why not provide a 200-level course instead?

Matt Cornell, productivity consultant, provides us with The World's Simplest Productivity Method, with Bonus Mini-Processing Examples. I'll cut to the chase: I'd always considered 4 D's, having five helps clarify things.

I had an interesting experience over the holiday break. I left work email at work. And I've discovered another advocate of email freedom in the founder of AwayFind, Jared Goralnick.

Some discussion of articles and a podcast recently that address the issues of productivity and multitasking. The short version: don't multitask.

The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.

Merlin Mann at 43 folders has a series of interviews with David Allen of Getting Things Done. In one, David Allen makes the hilarious observation that Blackberry adicts are going to need to move to Watermelon devices soon.

After posting about SNARF yesterday, and playing with it a bit more and reading through their community forum, it is clearly a research project and expects to have a few rough edges. However, this makes me think about organizing my inbox even more.

The joy of an empty mailbox is equivalent to the joy I once had at getting (surface) mail as a child.