The Learning Code

Getting Things Done + Personal Knowledge Management

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Written and Published on Mar 11 2017 by Tiago Forte - https://fortelabs.co/blog/gtd-x-pkm/

“You’re not at a loss about what to do with anything — a business card you collected at a lunch meeting, a harebrained idea you woke up with this morning about a project you might want to launch, an unexpected private invitation to a major gala event, or your blood panel report from your last medical checkup. You can create the right placeholder for any type of potentially meaningful data.”

David Allen goes on to lay out many of the qualities such a reference system should have:

  • “You will resist the whole process of capturing information if your reference systems are not fast, functional, and fun.”
  • “The great thing about external brainstorming is that in addition to capturing your original ideas, it can…continually reflect them back to you.”
  • “There must be zero resistance to using the systems we have.”
  • “…the ease of capturing and storing has generated a write-only syndrome: all they’re doing is capturing information — not actually accessing and using it intelligently.”
  • “We need to have a way to overview our mass of collected information with some form of effective categorization.”


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