GTD in Tellzm: The Complete Playbook
The five GTD stages — capture, clarify, organize, reflect, engage — wired into a Tellzm workspace you maintain in five minutes a day.
GTD without the binder. The system shouldn't outweigh the work.
David Allen's GTD is genuinely good — and genuinely hard to maintain in most tools. We mapped each of the five stages onto a built-in surface in Tellzm so you can run the whole thing without ever leaving your workspace.
1. Capture
Anything you notice goes into your personal Inbox immediately. Voice memo at a stoplight, mid-meeting one-liner, 3am idea — all into Inbox. The rule: never trust yourself to remember.
2. Clarify
Once a day — usually after lunch — sweep the Inbox. For each item: is it actionable? If yes, what's the very next physical action? If no, trash it or stash it as 'Someday/Maybe'. Two minutes per item, max.
3. Organize
- Today — what you'll do today. Cap at 5.
- Next — actionable, not today. Maximum 20.
- Waiting — blocked on someone else. Review weekly.
- Someday — not now, not soon. Review monthly.
4. Reflect
Friday afternoon, 20 minutes. Look at last week. What moved? What stalled? What's worth deleting from Someday? The honest reflect is the part that keeps the system alive — skipping it is what causes the system to collapse.
5. Engage
The rest is execution. The system disappears — you just work on Today. The whole point of GTD is to free your attention from juggling, so you can spend it on the work itself.
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.Open the demo and try the Capture → Today → Done loop yourself.
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