Episodes

  • Ep. 328: GTD List Manager with Emacs
    Sep 17 2025

    You may have heard of a text editor called Emacs, which has been around for a long time. This is your chance to hear how Matt has used it to create a GTD list manager. He talks about how he got into GTD, and goes into plenty of detail about the system he has developed, through many iterations, using Emacs.

    You can watch the entire conversation from December 2023 at GTD Connect®.

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    Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

    If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

    If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

    During your 14-day free trial, you will have access to:

    • Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
    • GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
    • Extensive audio, video, and document library
    • Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
    • David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
    • Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

    Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

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    56 mins
  • Ep. 327: Slice of GTD Life with Bryan
    Sep 10 2025

    Bryan has been at the GTD game for years. He talks about his journey from early implementation to refinement over time. He also shows his tool of choice in generous detail. An avid practitioner of Getting Things Done, Bryan is also an Atlassian Certified Expert, SAFe Practice Consultant, and ITIL Strategist.

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    39 mins
  • Ep. 326: Complete Projects Inventory
    Sep 3 2025

    This webinar recording will assist you in developing a current, complete, accurate, and clear inventory of all your projects -- the outcomes you are committed to finish within the next 12 months.

    To watch the entire webinar from July 2025, please visit GTD Connect.

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    This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

    Sign up for a free guest pass Learn about membership options

    Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

    If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

    If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

    During your 14-day free trial, you will have access to:

    • Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
    • GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
    • Extensive audio, video, and document library
    • Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
    • David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
    • Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

    Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

    Ready to start your free trial?

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ep. 324: Slice of GTD Life with Pascal Reischl
    Aug 20 2025

    Pascal Reischl is a certified GTD trainer in Austria. He will tell you that he has always been interested in technology. Naturally our discussion about his journey with GTD involves plenty of tech talk. But especially when working with people who are new to GTD, he doesn't push for feature-laden applications. Instead, he says "Start with what you are already using." He also shares an inspiring story about how putting GTD fully into practice has helped him to be more present with his family, and in every aspect of his life.

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    This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

    Sign up for a free guest pass Learn about membership options

    Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

    If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

    If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

    During your 14-day free trial, you will have access to:

    • Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
    • GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
    • Extensive audio, video, and document library
    • Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
    • David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
    • Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

    Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

    Ready to start your free trial?

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    34 mins
  • Ep. 323: Horizontal and Vertical Control
    Aug 13 2025

    You need to control commitments, projects, and actions in two ways--horizontally and vertically. Horizontal control maintains coherence across all the activities in which you are involved. Vertical control, in contrast, manages thinking, development, and coordination of individual topics and projects. In this webinar recording, Ana Maria Gonzalez talks about the relationship between these two levels of control and how you can leverage them both for your productivity.

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    This audio is one of many available at GTD Connect, a learning space and community hub for all things GTD. Join GTD practitioners from around the world in learning, sharing, and developing the skills for stress-free productivity.

    Sign up for a free guest pass Learn about membership options

    Knowing how to get the right things done is a key to success. It’s easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. Stay focused and increase productivity with GTD Connect—a subscription-based online learning center from the David Allen Company. GTD Connect gives you access to a wealth of multimedia content designed to help you stay on track and deepen your awareness of principles you can also learn in GTD courses, coaching, and by reading the Getting Things Done book. You’ll also get the support and encouragement of a thriving global community of people you won’t find anywhere else.

    If you already know you’d like to join, click here to choose from monthly or annual options.

    If you’d like to try GTD Connect free for 14 days, read on for what’s included and how to get your free trial.

    During your 14-day free trial, you will have access to:

    • Recorded webinars with David Allen & the certified coaches and trainers on a wide range of productivity topics
    • GTD Getting Started & Refresher Series to reinforce the fundamentals you may have learned in a GTD course, coaching, or book
    • Extensive audio, video, and document library
    • Slice of GTD Life series to see how others are making GTD stick
    • David Allen’s exclusive interviews with people in his network all over the world
    • Lively members-only discussion forums sharing ideas, tips, and tricks

    Note: GTD Connect is designed to reinforce your learning, and we also recommend that you take a course, get individual coaching, or read the Getting Things Done book.

    Ready to start your free trial?

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    28 mins
  • Ep. 322: Long Lists
    Aug 6 2025

    This is the recording of our Long Lists webinar. We had a lively discussion about how lists get to be long, how long they "should" be, what lists to review when, and how to narrow your focus on any given day.

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    40 mins
  • Ep 321: GTD App Design
    Jul 30 2025

    Creator of the second-best productivity tool for GTD, Eric Mack is grounded in GTD and knowledge management. David Allen and John Forrister recently talked with Eric about his five principles of productivity software design, in the hope that it might inspire future designers to incorporate some of these principles into their applications.

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    36 mins
  • Ep. 320: GTD Live pt. 1
    Jul 23 2025

    GTD Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace.

    If you’d like to purchase the complete seminar and binge it all at once, please visit the GTD® Store

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    30 mins