dangerous_beans t1_jdih83m wrote on March 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM

Reply to comment by stealthdawg in LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

So like most folks with some flavor of ADHD I rocked GTD for a month before the newness wore off, I started failing to update it, and soon backslid to my default productivity state: unmitigated chaos.

Before that happened, though, I genuinely liked GTD. It's the most flexible out of all the productivity/task management systems I've tried in that it can be readily adapted to support work or personal life and it doesn't require an investment in any particular tools to get started. It'll be the system I return to when I start feeling overwhelmed again and declare that I've got to get my life sorted out.

ansonwolfe t1_jdk3a8e wrote on March 24, 2023 at 11:32 PM

Bullet Journal might be a good alternative. It's less "rule-based" than GTD.

dangerous_beans t1_jdl5pxl wrote on March 25, 2023 at 4:54 AM

I tried Bullet Journal for about 3 weeks, but dropped it because the journal itself was so much work to maintain. Also, my ideas/tasks tend to come to me randomly, so it was hard for me to force myself to keep to one "topic" per page for the index.

I appreciate the suggestion though! It's definitely a system that works for a lot of people; it just didn't help with me.