Editing Getting Things Done (section)

{{Short description|Personal productivity system and 2001 book}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book
| name          = Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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| image         = Getting Things Done.jpg
| image_size    = 200
| caption       = First edition cover
| author        = [[David Allen (author)|David Allen]]
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| subject       = [[Business]]
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| publisher     = [[Penguin Books]]
| release_date  = 2001
| english_release_date = 2001
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| pages         = 267
| isbn          = 978-0-14-312656-0
| isbn_note     = (2015 reprint edition)
| oclc          = 914220080
}}
'''''Getting Things Done''''' ('''GTD''') is a personal [[productivity system]] developed by [[David Allen (author)|David Allen]] and published in a book of the same name.<ref name="Allen2015" /> GTD is described as a [[time management]] system.<ref name="The New Yorker">{{Cite web |last=Newport |first=Cal |date=November 17, 2020 |title=The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done |url=https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise-and-fall-of-getting-things-done |access-date=April 18, 2021 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> Allen states "there is an inverse relationship between things on your mind and those things getting done".<ref name= gtd> [[David Allen (author)|David Allen]] [https://gettingthingsdone.com/next-steps/ GTD next steps ]</ref>{{efn|name= thingsOnYourMind| Allen, in his 2001 book states that if a task is on one's mind, it will fill one's mind completely, which guarantees that one will be incapable of handling yet another task; therefore one will fail to complete any of them.<ref name= Allen2001/>{{rp|13-22}}}}

The GTD method rests on the idea of moving all items of interest, relevant information, issues, tasks and projects out of one's [[mind]] by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items with ''known time limits''.{{efn|name= doIt| "Will it take less than two minutes?" Yes -- then do it.<ref name= Allen2001/>{{rp|36}}}}{{efn|name= stuff|If you didn't get [[#stuff|get it done]] within your expected timeline, then update [[#tools|your tools]] (meaning fix your project plan, or your lists, etc.)}} This allows one's attention to focus on taking action on each [[#oval4|task list]]ed in an external record, instead of  [[recollection|recalling]] them intuitively.<ref name="Atlantic">{{Cite web |last=Fallows |first=James |date=November 2012 |title=Busy and Busier |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/busy-and-busier/309111/ |access-date=December 28, 2018 |magazine=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref>

First published in 2001,<ref name= Allen2001/> a revised edition of the book was released in 2015 to reflect the changes in information technology during the preceding decade.<ref name="Allen2015" />