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-Introduction
-============
-
-David Allen's "Getting Things Done", or GTD for short,
-is a popular, powerful system for
-managing one's life. If you have trouble dealing with your e-mail inbox,
-or feel you're drowning under a flood of inputs and information, or
-just don't seem to have time to do everything you think you should be
-doing, or others want you to do, then GTD may be a good thing for you
-to consider.
-
-This book explains how I, a computer geek, have
-implemented it in my own life. It is aimed at
-everyone whose lives include a lot of computer use, and who know how
-to use their computers.
-
-This book stands independent from Allen's three books on GTD, but
-you'll benefit from reading the first or third of those as
-well. (The second one should be considered optional.) I provide
-a different view of, and perhaps opinion of, the GTD system.
-
-I discuss what has been good about GTD for me, what has been hard
-to implement, and what has not worked. My goal is to explain what
-I do, and provide inspiration to you for building your own
-GTD system.
-
-GTD is not a system you buy in a shop and install on your desk. It is
-a meta-system: it provides some tools, a lot of guidelines, and
-principles, from which you create a system that works for you. For
-example, GTD assumes you will maintain lists, but does not specify
-how to do that. You can maintain a list on a pad of paper, in a text
-document on your computer, or by sticking photos of people on a
-notice board. It all depends on what kinds of things you need to
-keep track of, and on what tools you have and enjoy using. I am
-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?
-------------------------
-
-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 everything 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 its place in the greater sociohistorical context of humanity
------------------------
-
-Personal productivity systems have been around for a long time.
-Allen published his first GTD book in 2002, and for the next
-few years, there was quite a lot of buzz about it on the Internet.
-Something about GTD spoke to geeks, and they blogged about it,
-and dived into endless discussions about which color pen to use
-to write things down, or which software to use to keep an outline
-on what color computer. By 2007 the buzz had mostly died, and
-those who liked GTD kept using it.
-
-An influential blogger during that era was [Merlin
-Mann](http://www.merlinmann.com/), and his most important creation was
-"Inbox Zero". It's an elegant condensation of the GTD system for
-dealing with e-mail, and that may be all you need. Many of us hackers
-pretty much do everything via e-mail, so if you get that under
-control, you'll be fine. Go read.
-
-Technicalities
---------------
-
-This book is written using an [Ikiwiki](https://ikiwiki.info/)
-instance, used as a static site generator,
-
-The book is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Unported) license. However,
-the site is only editable by myself.
-
-"Getting Things Done" and "GTD" are registered trademarks of the
-David Allen Company.