Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Life Hackery
Search
Eric Marden
February 24, 2009
How-to & DIY
1
110
Life Hackery
Getting things done with room for more.
My experience with GTD, Inbox Zero, and other Life Hacks.
Eric Marden
February 24, 2009
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Eric Marden
See All by Eric Marden
API Driven Development with Goliath
xentek
5
930
DevCraft: ProTips™ for WordPress teams
xentek
0
58
Nginx: From Russia With Love
xentek
0
60
CMS Capabilities of WordPress
xentek
0
76
How To Keep The BarCamp Buzz Going All Year Long
xentek
0
40
What are you doing?: How Twitter became a new communication medium
xentek
0
51
Managing Multiple Drupal Sites with SVN
xentek
0
35
passion+inspiration = innovation
xentek
0
52
Other Decks in How-to & DIY
See All in How-to & DIY
お家で育てる制御実験環境
zilmina
0
960
わたしと技術コミュニティとキャリア
kotomin_m
2
1.3k
JAWS-UGのご紹介 JAWS-UGとは?
awsjcpm
0
4.9k
ミニ四駆ベースのAIカー TatamiRacerの製作
covao
1
110
AWS re:Invent 2024 re:Cap – AWS Community Perspective / JAWS-UG新潟
awsjcpm
0
120
PlatformIO IDE用M5Stack定型コード環境の紹介
3110
1
450
チームビルディングを受けてみた
harukahosokawa
2
140
【加筆修正版】ハードワークを支えるフィジカルとメンタルを構築る#rubymusclemixin 活動 #きのこ2025 #きのこ2025_b
bash0c7
0
150
未来大生の胃を支える函館グルメ
deflis
0
430
田中 is a new HelloWorld
akichika
1
290
JAWS-UG Fukuoka - AWS re:Invent 2024 re:Cap AWS Community Perspective
awsjcpm
2
120
Raspberry PiではじめるKiCad入門 / 20240226-rpi-jam
akkiesoft
1
4.2k
Featured
See All Featured
Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking
bcantrill
40
2k
For a Future-Friendly Web
brad_frost
176
9.6k
XXLCSS - How to scale CSS and keep your sanity
sugarenia
248
1.3M
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
addyosmani
48
7.5k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
tanoku
270
27k
Making the Leap to Tech Lead
cromwellryan
133
9.1k
Into the Great Unknown - MozCon
thekraken
35
1.7k
Designing for Performance
lara
605
69k
Building Adaptive Systems
keathley
40
2.4k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
colly
84
4.6k
JavaScript: Past, Present, and Future - NDC Porto 2020
reverentgeek
47
5.3k
The Web Performance Landscape in 2024 [PerfNow 2024]
tammyeverts
4
460
Transcript
Life Hackery Getting Things Done with Room for More
Life Hackery • Productivity Tips, Tricks and Systems that keep
you focused on creating great stuff, what ever that may be.
GTD • Getting Things Done by David Allen
GTD Systems • Things • OmniFocus • Google for: GTD
GTD Basics • Projects • Contexts • Items • Actions
Things • Simple To-Do List • Filter your focus •
Organize into Projects • Areas are Contexts
Inbox Zero • A vow to not spend more time
on any given email then it deserves.
Email is Evil • Robs you of your attention •
Derails your focus • Everything is Urgent • You’re paying mental debt, with interest, for every unprocessed email in your inbox
My Verbs • Delete (or archive) • Delegate • Reply
• Process
Delete • You really don’t need it. • Act on
it, or get rid of it. • If you really do need it, archive it. But don’t go crazy...
Delegate • If someone else can service them better, let
them. • Give yourself a reminder to follow up to make sure the email got taken care of.
Reply • Don’t write a novel when a haiku will
do. • Get good at quick replies, and process emails faster than ever.
Process • Does this email require me to do something
now? • If it takes less than an hour to process, then Just Do It. • If it will take longer, capture in your GTD system, and move on.
Getting Started • Set up an Email DMZ • Quarantine
your time • Schedule an Email Dash, once an hour. • Stay at zero by the end of each day.
Resources • http://inboxzero.com • http://43folders.com/ • http://gettingthingsdone.com/ • http://lifehacker.com/ •
http://culturedcode.com/things
... with room for more • If life has given
you a full plate, then get a bigger plate.
Thank you! • Eric Marden • http://xentek.net/ • http://twitter.com/xentek
Special Thanks • Special Thanks to all the folks I
ripped off for the topic of this talk, including Merlin Mann, David Allen, and Life Hacker. • This talk was driven from my experience implementing these powerful techniques.