Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done

Our GTD podcasts are here to support you at every stage of your GTD practice. You will hear interviews with people from all walks of life about their journey with GTD, from beginners to those who have been at it for years. The podcasts include personal and professional stories, as well as practical tips about GTD systems for desktop and mobile, using apps and paper. Start listening now and you'll be well on your way to stress-free productivity.

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October 28, 2025 42 mins

In our most recent Office Hour, we discussed how to work with others who don't practice GTD, and how to influence them to work more productively. We also went into some detail on ways to succeed with consistent reviews of your system at various time intervals.

You can watch a video version of this Office Hour from February 2025 at GTD Connect®.

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What makes a super list for you? Your super list will be the opposite of what David Allen calls an "amorphous blob of undoability." We will look at sample lists of projects, next actions, and waiting for items to improve clarity. You'll learn specific ways to make your lists easier to review, and draw you into the doing. The Q&A included keen questions that revealed subtle ways of reducing resistance to your lists.

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October 15, 2025 7 mins

David Allen talks about how the last minute may be the best time to do something, but it requires two things.

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Join us for a discussion of how two educators apply the GTD methodology. Erik Johnson teaches high school in Chicago, and David Drake is a professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa. They both have a passion for teaching, and have adapted GTD make their busy profession easier to manage. 

You can listen to the entire conversation from August 2019 at GTD Connect®.

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October 1, 2025 43 mins

Deb Smith-Hemphill talks about how to approach using AI with GTD. First she gives an overview of four types of AI. Then she considers how we can use AI more effectively, while staying aware of its limitations. Deb also details how we can get more out of AI by learning how to prompt it better.

You can watch the entire conversation from August 2025 at GTD Connect®.

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September 24, 2025 35 mins

We did a live Slice of GTD Life Interview with Drew Domkus, saving time at the end for Q&A from webinar attendees. Drew does audio/video production, social media management, and podcasting. His work as a podcaster led to his induction into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame in 2016. Although his work is in the digital world, he reveals that he uses paper as his list manager.

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September 17, 2025 55 mins

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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September 10, 2025 38 mins

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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September 3, 2025 65 mins

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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What do you need to know, and when, to stay on top of your projects from start to finish? This webinar examines how you define and list your projects, how you track what's necessary for completion, and the rhythm for reviewing that assures you are in relaxed control.

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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...

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August 13, 2025 28 mins

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 th...

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August 5, 2025 39 mins

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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July 30, 2025 35 mins

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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July 23, 2025 29 mins

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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July 16, 2025 33 mins

Noa and Idit of Skills Boutique share gems of wisdom in this interview. You will hear about how they started their company to address challenges in the future of work, and found that GTD has the tools to handle those challenges.

They discuss how the language of GTD around outcomes and next actions creates a culture of trust. They also talk about the effect of culture on productivity, especially when employees feel they have to save...

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July 12, 2025 20 mins

Our discussion focused on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in your GTD practice. We talked about apps and how much intelligence they have, and how much of the thinking is still up to you. We also considered ways to give AI models more information so they can assist us better with various parts of the GTD implementation.

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In this segment, David Allen and his team of coaches take a closer look at:

  • Getting started with GTD after you've taken a seminar or read the book?tips for getting started
  • Taking the GTD-Q assessment -- how well are you doing to manage your control + perspective?
  • How to learn and implement GTD in a way that works for you
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June 25, 2025 41 mins

David Allen, Eric Mack, and John Forrister continue their discussion about the GTD software journey, from early years to their current use of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools. If you haven't heard the first part, you may want to watch or listen to that first, but it's not required.

In this recording, they talk about the evolution of eProductivity and how much of its functionality is available in the Microsoft tools. Beyond that, it...

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Our GTD master trainer in Brunei, Rhymin Mohamed, has a fascinating talk with psychologist Paul Englert, who is based in Singapore. They talk about GTD's intersections with career counseling, psychology, and cognitive behavioral therapy. 
 

You can watch to the entire conversation from January 2021 at GTD Connect®.

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