On NOT Getting Things Done

I finally got around to reading Getting Things Done. I first tried to implement it during that month or two we were incredibly busy at work, so it didn’t really take – at least partly because I never did a full mind-dump to get everything in the system to begin with.

A couple weeks ago, I started playing with OmniFocus, and decided to give GTD another go. Since then, I’ve gotten pretty good about putting stuff in.

The problem is getting stuff out. I still haven’t gotten into the habit of checking OmniFocus when I’ve got free time to see what I should be doing. I feel like everything in OmniFocus is still in my head – I have some free time and think, “I don’t feel like doing any of that stuff,” because I know what stuff is in there. I need to get in the habit of checking it on a regular basis, so I can just put all my to-do’s into it and forget about them.

If anyone has any advice or suggestions on forming that habit, let me know.