In part 4 of GTD for academics we focus on the habit of collection and capture --- using simple tools to capture thoughts and ideas that we want to keep, before they get away.
Part 3 in an ongoing series about the Getting Things Done productivity philosophy for higher education people looks at a variant called Zen To Done, and its focus acquiring ten important habits for productivity.
In this second post on GTD for academics, we look at the question of knowing what to do with our time, why a system for helping us decide is important, and what a good system looks like -- and doesn't look like.
How do those of us in academia manage our time, tasks, and projects so that we have happiness, balance, and productivity? It's a question that's hard to answer but in this series of posts about the Getting Things Done system, I'll give it a go.