Life Hackery

Getting things done with room for more.

My experience with GTD, Inbox Zero, and other Life Hacks.

Transcript

1. Life Hackery
   Getting Things Done with Room for More
   

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2. Life Hackery
   • Productivity Tips, Tricks and Systems that
   keep you focused on creating great stuff,
   what ever that may be.
   

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3. GTD
   • Getting Things Done by David Allen
   

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4. GTD Systems
   • Things
   • OmniFocus
   • Google for: GTD
   

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5. GTD Basics
   • Projects
   • Contexts
   • Items
   • Actions
   

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6. Things
   • Simple To-Do List
   • Filter your focus
   • Organize into Projects
   • Areas are Contexts
   

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7. Inbox Zero
   • A vow to not spend more time on any
   given email then it deserves.
   

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8. 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
   

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9. My Verbs
   • Delete (or archive)
   • Delegate
   • Reply
   • Process
   

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10. 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...
    

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11. 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.
    

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12. Reply
    • Don’t write a novel when a haiku will do.
    • Get good at quick replies, and process
    emails faster than ever.
    

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13. 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.
    

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14. 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.
    

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15. Resources
    • http://inboxzero.com
    • http://43folders.com/
    • http://gettingthingsdone.com/
    • http://lifehacker.com/
    • http://culturedcode.com/things
    

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16. ... with room for more
    • If life has given you a full plate,
    then get a bigger plate.
    

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17. Thank you!
    • Eric Marden
    • http://xentek.net/
    • http://twitter.com/xentek
    

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18. 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.
    

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