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How cool to see Kelly and Wayne via video today. Of course--great advice, great tips--but great to see you!

Paul Smalera wrote a great piece over on Slate's The Big Money speculating if Obama were using GTD. Worth a read. You'll even see an "Obama-ized" GTD workflow diagram. By the way, you can get free copies (basic or advanced) of the GTD Workflow Diagram from the DAC store, and the new one with an instructional Coaching DVD with David Allen is coming soon.

Coaches Kelly Forrister & Wayne Pepper offer GTD tips for effective meetings.

I recently attended a seminar with my boss and a co-worker as a trial to see if GTD was something he wanted to instill in our department. He was a classic case of 9000 emails in his inbox (8973 to be exact, we counted) and was frustrated with the lack of follow-up people were having with secondary ...

Does anyone out there have any pictures of Moleskine uses, home made planners, etc?

I live in Austria and have a German installation of Outlook 2003. Does anyone know or have any experience whether the new 3.0 version works with international (in my case, German) installations of Outlook (i.e. NOT the English one + language pack)?

Old releases of the add-in including 2.7.5 did n...

For those of you on Twitter (or inclined to even join an event in this kind of format!), I'm doing a Guided Weekly Review on Twitter. Here are the details on GTD Times.

I'm planning on offering another free, guided GTD "Tweekly Review" for you Twitter fans.  If you missed the last one, here's how it will work:

On Thursday, August 13th from 9am-10am PDT (Los Angeles, California time), I will lead a one-hour GTD Weekly Review through Tweets sent from the @GTDSpecialEvent Twitter account.  Approximately every 5 minutes, I will send out a Tweet with one of the 11 steps of the GTD Weekly Review.  I will intersperse them with tips, tricks and helpful advice about th

I have theory that just like certain type of personalities "self select" to be GTDers, probably something similar happens with countries / cultures and even though GTD is universal, it´s adaptations will be a different in different cultures.

I was born in Northern Europe but I now live in Spain. ...

David shares about the new GTD System (and its origins), dealing with "stuff," what happens when a team gets coached on GTD, interesting reads and more.