Getting Things Done, otherwise known as GTD–this is a tool which, hopefully, will help me restore order in my life. As each day comes, as each new piece of information surrounds and drowns, more and more it’s essential to learn how to deal with it, process it. I’ve got the book and am going head first in to making the program work.

GTD seems to be a movement–but is that all social media hype? I first found it on the web. Someone blogged it. Maybe it was a blink, or a digg. Wherever the post was, it proved intriguing, and I researched the program further. The reports and dialogue convinced me to grab the book and the Outlook plugin. The plugin is by no means perfect, but I moved to this after the Franklin Covey PlanPlus Outlook plugin completely bombed for me.

Using the Covey nomenclature, a paradigm shift is definitely in progress. GTD’s author, David Allen, developed a Workflow Diagram, which is on my wall. I refer to it often and will have it memorized soon enough. It helps you deal with overwhelm and develop a trusted system for retrieving the information you need, when you need it. More on this soon. Quite busy building files–and despite the assertion that all of our “stuff” will be electronic, there’s still an abundance of paper in my world. Off to conquer it.