The SmartyTask Blog

Notes on GTD®, focus, and doing less to get more done.

Product updates, workflow ideas, and the occasional rant about why your productivity app shouldn't be a second job.

Featured · June 1, 2026

I've run my life on the same system since 2009

Seventeen years, 236,000 completed tasks, one system. What surviving every productivity fad since 2009 taught me about why task apps fail, and what to do instead.

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May 11, 2026

Running your weekly review in 15 minutes

The weekly review is the habit that makes GTD® work, and the one everybody skips. A 15-minute version that survives contact with real life.

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April 7, 2026

Contexts are not categories

Most people turn GTD® contexts into a filing system and wonder why their lists don't work. Contexts answer one question: what can I actually do right now?

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March 9, 2026

The two-minute capture habit

Everyone quotes the two-minute rule. The habit that actually changes your life is the other one: capture everything, the second it shows up, no exceptions.

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February 10, 2026

Your calendar is sacred ground

The fastest way to ruin both your calendar and your task list is to mix them. GTD®'s "hard landscape" rule, and the one-click way to honor it.

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January 13, 2026

Why keeping projects on one flat list is the most underrated rule in GTD®

Nested folders feel organized and work terribly. Why David Allen kept the projects list flat, and why your task app shouldn't let you build a filing cabinet.

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