The stress and confusion of having 10 things in your short-term memory, vying for top position in your cognitive central executive is well known especially amongst students and working executives.

You were working on your work, and suddenly you remember to book a venue for an upcoming meeting with a client, then you remember some stuff about the client. You realize you can’t do anything about it now, but you need to remember this because it’s important. You try to go back to work, and a while later someone asks you for help on another project you’re working on.
That’s already 4 things you have to juggle in your mind to keep them salient and actionable later. Within the span of probably an hour, you either have more things added to your to-do-need-to-remember list, and/or forgotten one or two or more.

It’s a problem that at least a few of us have been through regularly. Thus, I found a need to organize my life and work, such that there is less stress about when to do what, remembering what to do and when and where to do it, and organizing information that i’d like to refer to or process later.

Meet Getting Things Done by David Allen. It claims to help us with the quotidian task of managing ToDo’s and other stuff.
I managed to borrow some audio files to listen to them, and hopefully I’ll get something I want out of it.

With it, I plan to use Evernote and Diigo as capturing tools (as I’ve just learnt from 40tech.com)

Stay tuned.