GTD vs. Franklin/Covey

Life Balancing Getting Things Done and Franklin/Covey: "I've been wondering which is better: the Hyrum Smith/Stephen Covey 'top down' approach to planning, or the David Allen 'bottom up' school. Now I've rediscovered a tool that might allow me to do both.

This probably sounds strange, coming so closely on the heels of my recent column detailing how I implemented Allen's system on my Palm via Slap, ShadowPlan an DateBk5. But as I've pointed out, mobile tech is a constantly changing, constantly evolving field, and if you don't keep trying new things, you'll never have anything better that what you have now.

The pure Getting Things Done (GTD) system seems to have some weaknesses. The first one (and I hinted at this in my column on GTD) is that it tends to stress urgency over importance. If something needs to be done, there's no real difference in the system between one thing and the next. Allen says that the user should rely on intuition to pick what the real priority is out of the list. More often than not, I'll pick anything but 'clean up the living room' out of my @Home context, even if I know that's what really needs doing the most. I may be 'getting things done,' but am I getting the right things done? Covey says that the difference between efficiency and effectiveness is doing things right versus doing the right things. The GTD system doesn't really enf"

Le débat est ouvert entre les pro GTD et les anti. Pour ce qui me concerne, sans avoir une position dogmatique, je pense que GTD est encore plus attrayante si on la compare à "Covey one". Elle est "comprehensive" autrement dit elle inclut cette dernière quoi qu'on en dise.