David Allen grabs Lotus Notes

David Allen , who invented the GTD concept (Getting Things Done) in 2002, believes that you can do well without a computer in this matter. He always recommended clients to use only paper and pencil.



The main principle of GTD is to make the list as large as possible. “If you have less than 150 cases on your list, then it’s not full,” Allen likes to say. Hence it is clear that a normal list will be a thick stack of paper.



However, Allen recently began to deviate from its principles and gradually began to resort to using PCs. He uses a customized version of Lotus Notes that syncs with his phone so that he can add cases from the phone. This is quite enough, because in GTD everything is extremely simple. Nothing to complicate. David generally criticizes most of the computer programs on the market. According to him, only a few of them are quite simple. The man should not think how to use the program, says Allen. Every click is an extra one.

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Recently, more than a dozen computer programs based on the GTD concept have appeared on the market. The most successful can be called Omni Focus and Things .



After the publication of his famous book “Getting Things Done,” which had a circulation of 1.2 million copies, David Allen founded a company named after himself and engaged in personal consultations. Businessmen pay $ 3,000 per day for helping them organize their lives. David’s firm has 12 consultants. The methods he invented help manage the company without leaving your own garden (pictured above).



via CNN Money