Gtd Project List Template Excel

Ghost 11.5 Add Network Drivers on this page. Beginnerʼs Guide to Using Excel in Getting Things Done By Luc Glasbeek - WorkplaceProsperity.com - 22 September 2011 - Draft 0.1 Before you start: This paper assumes at least a working knowledge of the Getting Things Done methodology as well as a properly functioning version of Microsoft Excel (Or Apple Numbers) on your computer. Introduction Microsoft Excel is a tool that works well with Getting Things Done (GTD). After all, itʼs designed to organise information⎯and so is GTD! If our primary aim is to be able to define projects and record actions, then Excel enables you to get started with GTD very quickly. Mind you, the Excel software is so feature-rich that it allows you to program a wide range of useful features.

In researching this paper I came across an Excel template for GTD written in 2002 with an 8-page help guide! I can only imagine how Excel got bigger and better since then, offering further opportunities to get clever in terms of GTD.

Just like the list of next actions, the list of projects can be filtered and sorted by using standard Excel tools. Projects can be (un)finished or marked deleted similarly to next actions by selecting one or more projects from the list and clicking the appropriate button. Finished projects are automatically greyed out.

I kept using ToDoist for free for a while. But kept coming up against things I wanted to do and couldn't. Another article on GTD inbox with wikipad. Page of scanned text on GTD projects. GTD TiddlyWiki List of GTD tools. Kelly Forrister GTD Blog - good stuff here. Adding form to Google GTD spreadsheet - this is really cool! Link to my GTD form - this works great! GTD Times - mindmaps. Excel implementation of GTD article.

But Iʼll stay away from this here, because in essence I find that this isnʼt necessary from the outset. Iʼm just very conscious of how much time it takes to fiddle with software tools so wonʼt advocate this route to a broad audience unless I have to! Key principles of this Guide So my key principles in writing this document are twofold: • Simplicity Iʼd want all GTD practitioners to be able to grasp how to use the software for GTD without having to study manuals or recalibrate their computer system. • Speed In the same vein, Iʼd want GTD practitioners to be able to get started with Excel in minutes (rather than hours or even days). License Plate Reader Software Open Source.

Simplicity and speed, of course, come at a price, and in this case thatʼs functionality. The implementation described here wonʼt be as functionally rich as some of the other ones out there. But then again⎯this is a Beginnerʼs Guide. When to consider Excel Itʼs worth considering Excel when for instance: • Youʼre ready to move on from a paper-based GTD implementation to an electronic one, e.g., in order cut down on writing time or make daily backups of your data easily. • You work with Excel extensively anyways so youʼre already familiar with it.

• You either have a tablet or other mobile device that runs Excel, or you simply donʼt need to have access to Excel when youʼre on the go.
    Beginnerʼs Guide to Using Excel in Getting Things Done By Luc Glasbeek - WorkplaceProsperity.com - 22 September 2011 - Draft 0.1 A note on Appleʼs equivalent of Excel: Numbers The spreadsheet software alluded to here is Microsoft Excel. But similar guidelines apply to Appleʼs equivalent called Numbers. In fact, the screen shots in this whitepaper are produced with Numbers on a Macintosh computer. The principles are similar. Getting started The most fundamental GTD aspects that I would recommend you implement in Excel are Actions and Projects.

As youʼll be aware, GTD is very much an action-driven methodology. And actions are very much tied to projects, the exceptions being the simple and unrelated actions⎯which can be turned around literally within a couple of minutes. These are completed in isolation. So Iʼd want to see a list of projects and the various project-related actions represented in Excel. • My recommendation is to create a separate ʻtabʼ (worksheet) in your spreadsheet for each project.

• The tabs are ordered alphabetically so that projects can be identified easily. • The suggested default projects are: Read & Review, Some Day / Maybe, Personal Development, Learning GTD, and Family & Friends. • New projects are created (or removed, when finished) as and when required. • Actions are then listed on the worksheet of their corresponding project. • Completed actions can be removed or crossed out from the worksheet, depending on personal preference.