I'm getting a jump start on 2026 by setting up my planner for the year. Until 2025, I'd always been frustrated with my planning system fizzling out for the year as quickly as you stop going to the gym đ
Then this past year, I figured out my own personal planner system that WORKED for me, and now I'm sharing how I set up my 2026 planner.
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How I work productively: including Getting Things Done, work environment, reliable backup, and working in sprints rather than marathons
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Why I've found David Allen's "Getting Things Done" to be the most powerful tool for improving your personal work environment
@FreitagsFrage Zum Sortieren nutze ich AnsÀtze aus #gettingthingsdone, also kategorisieren und in einem priorisieren. Ich habe eine 1/3/5 Regel: Arbeiten kann ich nur an einer Aufgabe, Dringend sind maximal 3, Wichtig maximal 5. Um das zu erreichen priorisiere ich zyklisch neu. Das nutze ich privat und im Job und wende es auf Mailclients / Posteingang genauso an, wie auf Projektmanagementwerkzeug und Todoliste.
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Interestingly, Iâve recently come across versions of this same sort of tickler file recommended in mid-20th century textbooks for filing and indexing in business contexts:
Cadwallader, Laura Hanes, and Sarah Ada Rice. 1932. Principles of Indexing and Filing. Baltimore; Chicago: H.M. Rowe Company. page 134: https://archive.org/details/principlesofinde0000laur/page/134/mode/2up
Kahn, Gilbert, Theo Yerian, and Jeffrey R. Stewart, Jr. 1962. Progressive Filing and Records Management. 1st ed. New York: Gregg Publishing Division, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. page 190: https://archive.org/details/progressivefilin0000gilb/page/190/mode/2up
The careful observer will notice that both of the photos in texts by different authors nearly 30 years apart are the same! I would suspect that theyâre from a manufacturerâs catalog (Remington Rand) earlier in the century. Itâs even more interesting that one can still quickly create such a set up with commercially available analog office supplies now.
I quite like Oliver Burkemanâs â3-3-3 methodâ - for planning your day, you can realistically only do three hours of focussed work before youâre worn out, then choose three maintenance tasks to keep things ticking along, and three todo items so the wheels donât fall off the bus.
Except that on days like this, it may turn out to be â2.5-1-can-I-go-back-to-bed-please?â
How can you continuously improve your work life? Designing and conducting a regular work life review can work wonders.
Again, Iâm having a strong feeling of âHow on earth is it possible to do all the things that need doing, in each day?!â
Why do I never seem to make progress*; why does The Immense List Of Things never seem to go down?
Is âGetting Things Doneâ only a tantalising dream?
* I do, yesterday I finished a small part of the Link code on my Transputer emulator, and continued sorting out my new laptop, so âneverâ is a bit of all-or-nothing thinking.
Has anyone here good resources to dive deeper into #GettingThingsDone and #OmniFocus? I want to revamp my task management and feel like my current implementation can be improved A LOT...
How I work productively: including Getting Things Done, work environment, reliable backup, and working in sprints rather than marathons
#PersonalEffectiveness #working #productivity #tips #breaks #GettingThingsDone #OfficeEnvironment #pomodoro
My "daily GTD review" didn't hold up quite as well as I expected. There were a few problems with it:
"must dos" were useful as often as they weren't. I ended up moving the truly mandatory stuff to the calendar instead, and when I need to concentrate on a handful of projects or actions I just create a new project and put everything there
the more projects I had, the longer the daily review took me while providing less value. I find that if I have many projects, it's a bit less important to have each one in tip-top shape all the time. Nowadays I just do a weekly review and then chug along, feeling assured that I have enough tasks to last me a week
such a detailed daily review made it easier to skip weekly reviews, since the lower horizons were taken care of and I didn't feel all that stressed about them. This kept me from working on higher horizons, impacting my overall happiness and motivation
I think daily reviews served their purpose as a crisis management tool, but I should have reduced them as early as possible.
Today, my daily review consists of processing the few choice inboxes and glancing through the calendar, waiting-for, and projects list. All the other stuff moved back to the weekly review, which expanded to also include periodic work on higher horizons.
We'll see what I think of this in one more year :)
#Productivity Videos Are The Bane Of Productivity https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/productivity/productivity-videos-are-the-bane-of-productivity/ #blogging #blogpost #gettingthingsdone #gtd #youtube #contentcreation
How can you continuously improve your work life? Designing and conducting a regular work life review can work wonders.
Why I've found David Allen's "Getting Things Done" to be the most powerful tool for improving your personal work environment
Via @paternoster -
âBy saving the article, I can assuage the anxious *should* part of my brain, then upon later review I can oubliette the article peacefully into the appâs archives.â
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https://tracydurnell.com/2025/09/06/its-ok-to-not-read-your-read-later-backlog/
I never could finish this book lol
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How I work productively: including Getting Things Done, work environment, reliable backup, and working in sprints rather than marathons
#PersonalEffectiveness #working #productivity #tips #breaks #GettingThingsDone #OfficeEnvironment #pomodoro
Why I've found David Allen's "Getting Things Done" to be the most powerful tool for improving your personal work environment
Splitting Taskwarrior tasks to sub-tasks
https://ankursinha.in/2025/07/05/splitting-taskwarrior-tasks-to-sub-tasks.html
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