You know you’re having a problem with procrastination when you’ve put off reading a really good anti-procrastination self-help book for more than three years.

I’m finally getting around to reading Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. The system has become an honest-to-goodness ‘net phenomenon.

This is in part being prompted by my current fascination with Lifehack, (lifehacker) the community productivity blog, which is a great resource for the kinds of articles I love to link to. (Such as Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods, Fifty Tools That Can Help You in Writing and 150 Tips and Tricks on Cleaning.)
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The book focuses on ways to help the reader become more organized through time management and eliminate stress. Darn thing might as well have my name on it as the perfect “Desperately Needs This Book" example.

Sites and Background
Overview from the author

Wikipedia on GTD "GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of their mind and get them recorded somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate fully on actually performing those tasks."

An outline can be found here.

Book Excerpt here.

Lunch and Learn: Getting Things Done.

43 Folders: a blog about “personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better" They have an entry on GTD that is excellent.

GTD Primer

The Getting Things Done Zone on Office Zealot

PigPog: Productivity Articles


Articles and Blog Entries
The Guardian: Meet the man who can bring order to your universe

Wired: "GTD: A New Cult for the Information Age"

FastCompany: You can do anything, but not everything.

Time Yoga and Time Management

The Printable CEO

Working Smart: Getting Things Done

Transforming Practices: A System for Sanity