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 not going to discuss specific software tools in detail, since I have
 not made a survey of them. I will explain what I use myself.
 
+Why GTD? Why any system?
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+
+In the middle of 2006 I noticed that I was massively failing to
+do things I'd promised to do, or that I wanted to do, or that I
+absolutely had to do. I was forgetting to buy food before a holiday,
+and then scrambling to feed myself while the shops were closed.
+I had been an independent consultant/contractor for a year and
+a half, and struggling to meet deadlines. I kept doing things,
+then realising some other things were about to explode in my
+face, and switching to do deal with that, until I noticed another
+emergency brewing.
+
+I realized that I was under too much stress, and this 
+made me unhappy, and that made me less productive, which made
+me more stressed, and that there was no end to this recursion.
+I needed to deal with it, and decided to spend a bit of time to
+do so.
+
+I looked at a few personal productivity systems, but they didn't
+seem very convincing to me. I tried cooking up my own, but felt
+my own attempts didn't really solve the problem. I switched from
+keeping everything in my head to writing everyting on post-its,
+but then I kept losing the bits of paper, or forgetting to read
+them at the right time.
+
+I happened to remember someone blogging about the GTD system,
+and when I read about it, it clicked. Pieces fell into place
+and things started to make sense. I started applying GTD to
+my life, and my life started getting better.
+
+I don't know if it was purely because of GTD, or mainly because
+of GTD, but having GTD shape my thinking about these things
+definitely made a difference to me.
+
+It might be that any of the other myriad personal productivity
+systems will do equally well. I haven't tried many of them,
+so I don't know. I'm not trying to convince you one way or
+another: I explain what I do, and why, and you decide if
+it makes any sense to you.
+
 A brief history of GTD and it's place in the greater sociohistorical context of humanity
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