
When your work is more simple, with lots of one-off tasks to remember, rather than complicated projects and different types of work to manage, it's silly to spend your time maintaining a system you don't really need. For some of us, it's too much work and even overkill-sometimes you just don't have enough tasks or multi-step projects for a complex approach like GTD to be useful.

Some people swear by the GTD method, but to make GTD work, you have to put in a lot of work. There's also a regular review process built into the GTD method, to ensure that you've followed all the essential task management steps. But the system also requires rethinking your tasks: everything in your GTD system should be actionable and broken down into the smallest steps.

Getting Things Done® and GTD® are registered trademarks of the David Allen Company.Įverything in your system also needs to be organized into the appropriate project (any multi-step task) and context (when and where you'll work on it).
