{"id":354,"date":"2019-09-27T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taskeo.co\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:13:14","slug":"how-to-be-more-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taskeo.co\/blog\/how-to-be-more-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be More Productive with GTD And Taskeo – The Complete Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagine what would it feel like to be always<\/em> ahead of the game. Never miss a deadline. Never worry that you\u2019re forgetting something. You’d never ask again how to be more productive.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds good? Sure it does. What’s even better, it\u2019s totally doable.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How?”, you\u2019ll ask.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might have heard about David Allen\u2019s Getting Things Done<\/em> system. Perhaps you\u2019ve read his book and thought \u201cI\u2019ve got to do that with my life\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the good news: it\u2019s possible with Taskeo. Today we\u2019ll show you how to set up a GTD system in our platform step by step and how to be more productive thanks to it. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side note: this guide will work well with many other kanban-based tools but it’s from a Taskeo user perspective. If you haven’t got an account yet, you can create sign up for free here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hold on, what\u2019s a GTD anyway?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chances are that you don\u2019t know what Getting Things Done<\/em> is. So here’s the brief explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Allen<\/a> is a world-class trainer that specializes in teaching people how to be more productive and how to improve your task management. In the beginning, he\u2019s worked with corporation managers only. But then, in 2001, he published his best selling book, <\/span>Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. <\/span><\/i>Nearly instantly, his strategy became the most popular productivity system up to date. Today, he convinces us that anybody, manager or not, can use his method to change their life.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason why the GTD system turned out to be so popular is that it\u2019s simple and very human. Allen didn\u2019t come up with anything new. In opposition to, for example, Scrum or Gantt chart, Getting Things Done<\/em> doesn\u2019t intimidate a beginner. Everything Allen did was to analyze how we already work. GTD doesn\u2019t tell you to come up with a new workflow. It’s effective because it teaches you how to be more productive by improving things that you already do every day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GTD is based on an idea that our brains are bad at remembering things. Allen suggests that what stresses us most are all the open loops that sit in the back of our heads, half-remembered, half-forgotten. He believes that the moment you let your brain do the creative work and leave remembering to an external system, you\u2019ll rid yourself of stress and boost your productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, Taskeo will play the role of that external <\/span>memory system,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basic Principles of Getting Things Done<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To implement Getting Things Done<\/em> in Taskeo, you need to understand its basic principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we already said, the main idea of the GTD system is that all uncompleted assignments – the so-called open loops – are the main source of stress in our lives. Unfinished projects expose us to stress resulting from the feeling of not being in control. David Allen\u2019s system helps you get a hold of all these matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to do that, every single task you\u2019ve got open and unfinished must go through this 5-step process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n