No Internet + No Phone = Get Things Done

by Josep M. Ganyet

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Things, OmniFocus, Anxiety they’re all neat applications that can help you to Get Things Done (GTD).

But I just realized that the real GTD is having no internet access. Stranded near St. Tropez with my Mac and no internet connexion I did more actual work in a couple of hours than in a whole online working day. How?

No email
No Skype (huge time consumer)
No Twitter
No Safari
No Google Reader
No Wikipedia to fill my knowledge voids
No bittorrent
No iTunes (my music library sits in an external drive)
No phone calls (don’t like roaming costs)
No application or system upgrades to download and install
No new features to check on the upgrades

This allowed me to:

Go running on the woods
Restart Douglas Coupland’s J-Pod on the beach
Watch Rossi win the italian Grand Prix
Write this post while I’m offline in the terrace of my appartment
Take a long walk in Port Grimaud
Have a Boullabaisse for dinner

In any case if you’re serious about GTD, a part from staying offline, consider getting Things, the simplest and yet more powerful GTD app for the Mac.

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