I am one of those people who's “to do” list seems to keep growing, and hardly ever shrinks. The only time (it seems) items come off my list is when I procrastinate long enough so that the task becomes irrelevant. Of course, that's not entirely true, but it sure feels like it sometimes.

There has been a lot of blogger buzz recently about a productivity book by David Allen, called “Getting Things Done”. I have to admit, if this works it could really help me get on top of my “to do” list.

Bloggers have been reporting some great success about this methodology. The most famous tenet of which says, “Keep your Inbox empty”. What that means is when someone sends you an email, act on it (in some way) right away. Either delete it. Or reply to it. Or file it in the appropriate folder in your email archive. Or create some sort of task for you to do later if it will take some time to respond. But if you keep your Inbox empty, you will stop things from falling through the cracks.

There are also other methods in this book for managing your task list, keeping your desk free of clutter, filing paper, and such. Sounds interesting. I think I will try and find the book next time I am at Chapters, and read a bit of it to see how likely it will be that I follow through.