Getting Things Done or GTD as I will mention it from now on is an action management method. It also is a trademark of David Allen, the founder of GTD. GTD rests on the principle that a person needs a free mind so he can concentrate on working on his tasks. By a free mind, I understood they mean free from the job of remember everything that needs to be done.

There are five core princples of GTD. I'm going over them one at a time. I'm not even sure of GTD is going to work for me, as it has a focus on managers and I'm still not a manager, I'm a Software Engineer, with a lot of tasks to do.

The five core principles are:

• Collect
• Process
• Organize
• Review
• Do

I'll start with the first principle Collect.

The collect principle means capturing everything you need to track, remember or act on. Get everything out of your head and put those things together. Use a ToDoToDay notebook, your Outlook, PDA or whatever else. Put it into a so called "bucket". Every bucket needs to be processed to empty at least once a week.

I think I will be able to this. I've been using a book to make notes about what to do, for about a year ago. Time to pick it up again I guess.