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1superpatron First Message
Aug 3, 2006, 4:53 pm

I'm guessing that the #1 shared book in the library here will be David Allen's Getting Things Done.

2GirlFromIpanema
Aug 3, 2006, 5:27 pm

Done. ;-)

3Lunawhimsy
Aug 3, 2006, 5:43 pm

Well at least we have Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House in common! :)

4superpatron
Aug 3, 2006, 9:10 pm

I also see Temple Grandin and Thinking in Pictures : and Other Reports from My Life with Autism - good book. She has an essay "My Mind is a Web Browser" which is a good read.

5CMBNDX First Message
Aug 3, 2006, 10:58 pm

Shelflist: Would a column for Dewey numbers help?

6sunny
Aug 4, 2006, 2:17 am

Dewey numbers: go to (edit) behind 'Display styles A B C D E' - then you can change what fields get displayed. In the fifth group you see 'Dewey no.'

7sunny
Aug 4, 2006, 2:20 am

I don't remember if it was a book or only an article: The "80-20 rule" helps getting things done: in 20% of the time you often can achieve 80% of what you should be doing - in some cases the other 20% are not worth the 80% of effort.

8superpatron
Aug 4, 2006, 1:06 pm

The 80/20 rule is the Pareto Principle from economist Vilfredo Pareto - it's the same principle that governs the thinking in the current book The Long Tail.

9Jaydot
Aug 4, 2006, 4:35 pm

So....
Did we all do our Weekly Review today? :)
Cheers,
j.

10turbosaab
Aug 4, 2006, 11:28 pm

Yes, followed shortly by my Weekly Mental Breakdown ;)

11chamekke
Aug 6, 2006, 2:20 pm

I find that this new Forums feature helps me to procrastinate very efficiently indeed.

12kukkurovaca
Aug 7, 2006, 1:09 am

No kidding, chamekke. It's a little scary, actually. I had totally purged forums from my life, and now here I am again.

13mortaine
Sep 19, 2006, 12:48 pm

Two books I find interesting in the GTD world:
The Tipping Point, which isn't specific to GTD, but has a similar "how do people really think and work" feel to it. And an old classic that I love, Time Management for Writers, which I don't think I can ever part with, even though it's a little out of date.

14MrLithic First Message
Edited: Oct 18, 2006, 6:10 am

David Allen is talking to Merlin Mann from 43 Folders in a new series Productive Talk