You can browse all the published concept maps without signing in. If you'd like to create your own concept maps, all you have to do is sign in with Twitter. It's free!
For knowledge workers, there is a lot of work to do defining our work before we can start actually doing our work. The 5 phases of workflow is the GTD model for capturing, defining and doing our work.
GTD is a "bottom up" approach that focuses on mastering the mundane. Once that is done, though, there are higher perspectives that can really make the system bring about great results.
The gathering of all inputs we have let into our lives for later processing.
This is where the rubber meets the road and we get things done.
An approach to personal productivity that focuses on action management rather than time management. Based on the best-selling book of the same name.
Any collection bucket for stuff.
The practice of regularly and completely emptying all of your inboxes so that your trusted system is updated with the outcome of processing all of the new stuff. The opposite is trying to use, for example, your email inbox as a management system in itself.
Any set of similar items. Examples include:
The next defined physical, visible action you will take to advance some purpose.
Examples include:
The complete inventory of the next physical, visible action you will take to fulfil some purpose.
This is where we put things into our trusted system where they need to go based on their meaning to us.
This is where we decide exactly what each new input means to us.
Anything you're committed to that will take more than one action step to complete.
Examples include:
The complete inventory of everything you have committed to that will take more than one action step to complete.
This is where we make sure our trusted system is current and complete.
Any input that has arrived in your world for which you have not defined the meaning.
An action that must happen at a given time on a given date. Typical examples include meetings and appointments.