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Getting Things Done

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Last discussed Oct 20, 2026

A productivity methodology and book by David Allen focused on task management and organization systems.

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Chris Williamson
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Used for: Personal development foundation and productivity systems Praised: Part of essential personal development curriculum vs: Listed alongside other foundational personal development books

"This is why I highly recommend that people become totally obsessed with personal development and productivity and David Allen's Getting Things Done and James Clear's Atomic Habits and Morgan's The Psychology of Money and The Subtle Art of Not Givi..."

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"With a productivity background and spending a lot of time with David Allen's Getting Things Done and environment design..."

"I've certainly gone through my era of David Allen's Getting Things Done and Pomodoro timers and Cal Newport. I think everybody kind of goes through..."

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Oliver Burkeman
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"So all the way back to the Pomodoro technique and David Allen's Getting Things Done. It's not that any of these things... are kind of inherently evil, and many of them are incredibly insightful and really useful."

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Cal Newport
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vs: Mentioned as one alternative approach to time blocking for deciding when to d...

"If you're using David Allen's Getting Things Done, he suggests answering the when question with physical context. So he divides all his tasks by context, and then when you find yourself in a given context, you just look at the list for that context."

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Carl Richards
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Used for: Used as an example of a productivity system people read about but rarely fully implement

"We can feel like I'm really good at time management by just reading David Allen's Getting Things Done book. I can feel that way. I could maybe even buy a little booklet or something, a bullet journal, and I could let my family see it and I would b..."

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Mark Manson
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vs: Contrasted with modern productivity advice that focuses on removing things an...

"So I'm talking this is back in the day like David Allen Getting Things Done. Everything was about systematizing and organization structures and different system hacks."

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