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title = "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen"
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date = 2015-03-05
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "david allen", "reviews"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done):
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In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done,
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veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough
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methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of
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thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our
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productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our
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minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective
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productivity and unleash our creative potential.
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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As a method, GTD is damn obvious to follow: Write things down so you don't
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need to keep thinking that you need to remember something, which would just
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lead into a constant need of keeping parts of your brain working on
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remembering instead of producing stuff; focus on what you should do next to
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complete said things you wrote down; and so on.
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Part of the whole I was already following, so learning a few more tricks was
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really welcomed.
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The problem here is the telling itself.
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There are references to PDAs, like it was something not so common. Right now,
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almost everyone has a PDA in their pocket, although we call them "smartphones"
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instead of PDAs; there are references to "common" binders and rolodexes and
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that kind of furniture that, in today's world, is a pretty rare thing and most
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of the stuff we deal each day is digital.
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There are some topics which are largely just propaganda for the method itself
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instead of going straight into it to give people an general idea of how things
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work and then going deeper (he does it later, but the very start is boring as
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hell).
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Also, some final topics are mostly "One of my clients said she couldn't
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understand how she lived till this day doing things not GTD" or "I do this
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'cause I like it", which although good to know, it's not representative of the
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method itself.
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So while GTD is a pretty damn good method to keep things organized, the book
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that describes this is not well written, IMHO.
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Get it for the methodology, and be ready to skip a lot of useless stuff.
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