I am a big believer in the Getting Things Done methodology of staying organised, and of course, I seek to understand how it can be used with Google Wave.

Getting Things Done (GTD for short) was created by David Allen, in his book entitled, unsurprisingly,  Getting Things Done.

The central idea of GTD is that everything that catches your attention gets captured, and the decisions what to do about it are taken later, and recorded, you can get  a good overview of GTD from 43 folders, which goes into far more depth than I do in this article. If you are not familiar with GTD, read the 43 folders article, before continuing with this one, otherwise this might not make much sense.

First of all, there is the Google Wave inbox, which acts just like any other inbox in the GTD system, with a bunch of items that need to be processed. This is fairly easy in wave, especially with the space bar to bring any unread items to your attention. I have personally found it helpful to create a custom search that display only unread items in the inbox, allowing me to get through them faster, and ensuring they disappear from view once I have done so.

The fact that everything in wave is recorded is very useful for reviews, and for taking notes… It could be used to record things as they come up, instead of dedicated note-taking software.

I have given some thought to actually implementing GTD in Wave, possibly by using separate waves for each project and context, but decided that I would need to write some fairly involved robots to actually get anything working. Wave is just not suited for that sort of thing at the moment, although it would be useful for working with teams.

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