I've tried to adopt the Getting Things Done method a few times already. Every time, it wasn't a success. I wasn't applying most principles and fell back to noting things down on a collection of small papers. This time, I had a huge advantage: at work, I'm sitting next to 'Etienne, a big proponent of GTD. He inspired me to try again and answered a lot of questions I had during my adoption.

This time, I chose Omnifocus for my GTD experimentation. It's a bit expensive to buy the three flavours but I was committed. I'll be talking about my experiences via Omnifocus but you should not focus too much on the software. You can adopt GTD with paper, with another software, whatever works for you.

Capturing

In january, I started the capture part. That's when you note down in your GTD system everything you'd like to do. You need to create that habit and do it every time something pops in your head. I use three main methods to collect:

1. When I'm in front of my computer, I use the ^

http://ricaud.me/blog/post/2014/06/Adopting-Omnifocus-and-GTD