Evernote second brain template8/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() See, for example, Tiago Forte's "PARA" method and templates, which are quite similar to GTD, but not, in fact, GTD. Certainly there are many "GTD" templates out there which are much like the previous array of software products on GTD that David Allen has referred to. There are myriad templates which will purport to offer the ready-made system someone is looking for, but in practice it's often not straightforward to understand how these products work. One of the issues (as I see it) is that since templates are presented as screenshots, they can look functional or automated, when in fact they are unlikely to be so because there are limitations to Notion automation, except using the API. Notion is often presented as aesthetic and clean (which, from a certain point of view, it is) when I think it's actually quite complicated to start out. Potentially these could be built as Python or Rust scripts, but I don't have enough knowledge of those (yet?)! If I can be any help at all with that I'm happy to, although again my particular set up relies on Shortcuts on macOS. A guide could certainly help though to get someone set up. I think the bottom line about Notion, though, is it's not really a GTD tool as others like Things, Omnifocus, Nirvana, Todoist etc.! It's more like a platform on which someone could build out a GTD system, or indeed any kind of personal management / second brain system (as many contributors on YouTube attest!). Happy to share more if anyone would find it helpful. I would be dishonest not to say that tinkering away and building out the functions to interact with the API has been its own fun for me at least! But over time there were features that I wanted for my own system and Notion's flexibility and accessibility of the backend through the API (which is very well documented) has enabled me to build all this. ![]() Previously I used Cultured Code's Things, which I would still very much recommend. I've been a GTD user for about 15+ years (on and off!). Using the Notion API and a set of scheduled macOS Shortcuts, I've built up automations to achieve this and used Notion's saved database views to present them to me. One of my long-term goals was to build out some of the features in David Allen's slide deck for the ideal GTD system, such as a minesweep tool, and to get the system to highlight to me, for example, if I have any Projects without open tasks, or any Projects older than 12 months. Waiting For and Someday lists, based on Task status. Then using Notion's database filters, saved them as views for context / energy / time etc. I've built a full "trusted system" in Notion, modelling out databases for Areas, Projects and Tasks, with links between each. I'm using Notion - I think its power is in its "blocks" approach, that lets you mix page content, embed videos etc, and – best for implementing GTD – databases. ![]()
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