What’s the difference between reference material and support material for actions and projects? And what types of support materials are common?

This episode is a bit shorter than previous episodes, but it contains a lot of good and practical tips. Where does Lars’ fallen-off jacket button, Mortens concert tickets and hotel voucher go until they’re needed? What about digital notes? What is Lars’ “Dyreborg hook”?

Listen to this episode to find out! :-)

Links:

* OneNote: http://onenote.com/

* Evernote: http://evernote.com/

* Todoist: http://todoist.com/

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

Your day is already split into three different types of work, even though you may not be aware of it! What are they and why are they relevant?

How do you take these into account when setting your expectations for what you can get done?

How do you decide if you should handle work that just shows up?

How do you decide what actions from your lists to work on?

Becoming aware of these two concepts can REALLY up your game, listen to this episode to learn more.

Note: For this audio recording there was a glitch in the recording software, so we had to use Lars’ Skype connection recording - our apologies for the audio dropping out a few times.

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

We are at the end of our walkthrough of the five steps to manage your workflow. In this episode we cover the fifth and final step: Engage!

Listen to this episode to learn about choosing what to work on using the limiting criteria, the Horizons of Focus to prioritize and the three-fold nature of work - what are they? And why is this step so important? Morten and Lars also share some of their personal experiences using this step.

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

This episode covers the fourth of the five steps to manage your workflow, Reflect! Now is the time to take a step back and review your work and life from a higher perspective…

In this episode we focus on a keystone habit in GTD: The Weekly Review. We go through the 3 parts of a Weekly Review covering each of the 11 steps. What is the value of doing this? Is it easy to get done? Do you have to do all steps every time and when is the most popular time to do it? Listen to this episode to learn more.

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

This episode covers the third of the five steps to manage your workflow, Organize! In Clarify you decided what to do about your stuff, now it’s time to place them where they belong.

What lists or places are typically used by GTD’ers in this step? Where do we place the actionable and non-actionable ideas that we come up with? What should you keep in mind when Organizing? Listen to this episode to learn more.

In this episode we mention software such as

Evernote: https://evernote.com/

OneNote: https://www.onenote.com/

..but don’t forget: “A fool with a tool is still a fool” ;-)

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

This episode covers the second of the five steps to manage your workflow, Clarify! Learn how you figure out what all the stuff you captured means to you.

How do you apply this step, what should you be aware of when you walk through it, what can you expect to get from it? Listen to this episode to learn more.

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

The first “real” episode of the podcast where Morten and Lars focus on the first of the five steps in GTD: Capture! What’s the science behind this, what tools do we use and what is our experience with using this step e.g. regarding notifications.

Links referenced:

- The magical number 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two

- Humans have shorter attention spans than goldfish: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/humans-have-shorter-attention-span-than-goldfish-thanks-to-smart/

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.

What is GTD? How will you benefit from using the techniques? How did Morten and Lars start using GTD and how did it help them? Those are the topics of this very first episode of the Getting Things Done podcast from GTDnordic.

Links referenced:

- This Week in Tech podcast: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

- GTDnordic: http://gtdnordic.com/

As always, if you have any feedback we'd love to hear from you via [email protected], you can learn more about GTD in the Nordics at GTDnordic.com and find cool GTD gear at GTDshop.com.