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Minimalist time-management system

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To be productive at work without struggling unnecessarily, you need to have a reliable way of organizing everything that’s part of “your world”, including tasks, deadlines, meetings, external dependencies, etc. This post outlines a minimalist approach to designing a productivity system that helps you do your best work. Getting Things Done, or GTD as it’s often referred to, is a popular time-management system developed by David Allen. GTD is a framework for organising your todos, priorities, and your schedule in a way that makes them all manageable. While the system has its merits, it often tries to do too much and requires a considerable amount of time just to maintain the system. Furthermore, GTD is a bottom-up, runway-level system and doesn’t put enough emphasis on your goals. In this post, I have tried to simplify GTD and break it down into a few essential habits that you can adopt step by step. This was inspired by Leo Babauta’s Zen to Done. People who want to implement the most si

To be productive at work without struggling unnecessarily, you need to have a reliable way of organizing everything that’s part of “your world”, including tasks, deadlines, meetings, external dependencies, etc. This post outlines a minimalist approach to designing a productivity system that helps you do your best work. Introduction Getting Things Done , or GTD as it’s often referred to, is a popular time-management system developed by David Allen. GTD is a framework for organising your todos, priorities, and your schedule in a way that makes them all manageable. While the sys

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