David Allen sits in his small office in a cottage behind his house in Ojai, Calif., talking business with a visitor. Suddenly he stops. "That reminds me," he says. He scribbles the words "bird feed" on a piece of blank notebook paper and tosses it into his inbox.It's an ordinary moment in an ordinary day. But for Allen and his legion of followers, it holds the key to salvation. He has emptied his mind of a nagging task, placed it into a trusted system for processing, and casually returned to his conversation. That's GTD, short for "Getting Things Done," the prosaic title of his best-selling book.
But GTD is not really a book. Nor is it a subscription website ($48 per month), a one-day public seminar ($595), a corporate training session ($20,000 per day), a growing accessory line of wallets ($99) and plastic folders ($19), an add-on for Microsoft Outlook ($70), or any of the dozens of unauthorized websites where geeks and high-tech execs gather to proclaim Allen the new messiah and debate the finer points of his teachings.
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