Gaining Perspective: 1. Gaining Perspective 2. Gaining Perspective Through Actions 3. Gaining Perspective at Project Level 4. Gaining Perspective from the Areas of Focus 5. Gaining Perspective Through Goals 6. Gaining Perspective at a Higher Level: Vision 7. Gaining Perspective at the Highest Altitude: Purpose and Principles At the top level of the six levels of perspective we find Purpose and Principles, which answer the questions “why” and “how” from a deeper, almost existential perspective. The Purpose provides us with the necessary end goal to guide our existence or that of our company P ..read more

Gaining Perspective: 1. Gaining Perspective 2. Gaining Perspective Through Actions 3. Gaining Perspective at Project Level 4. Gaining Perspective from the Areas of Focus 5. Gaining Perspective Through Goals 6. Gaining Perspective at a Higher Level: Vision From the bottom up, vision is the next-to-last level on the ladder of perspective. Beyond the level of goals, we find ourselves on a higher horizon where the fundamental question is: How do you envision long-term success? This question should be understood as a complete vision of a future situation of personal success. What would it be like ..read more

Gaining Perspective: 1. Gaining Perspective 2. Gaining Perspective Through Actions 3. Gaining Perspective at Project Level 4. Gaining Perspective from the Areas of Focus 5. Gaining Perspective Through Goals Climbing the hierarchy of GTD perspective levels, we are already at the level of goals, which contains the commitments you want or have to achieve one or two years from now. Goals, like projects, are results that can be completed in a given time frame and are therefore likely to be marked as “done”. The one-year barrier is often used to separate goals from projects, with projects being the ..read more

Gaining Perspective: 1. Gaining Perspective 2. Gaining Perspective Through Actions 3. Gaining Perspective at Project Level 4. Gaining Perspective from the Areas of Focus The areas of focus or areas of responsibility level is the level immediately above the project level in the hierarchy of horizons proposed by David Allen to reflect on what underpins your personal life and work and, as a result, to be clear about the priorities that should govern your decisions. This level functions as a summary of your reality. It contains a small group of categories that describe the aspects of your life in ..read more

Hello everyone! This summer, apart from taking a few days off, we have updated the database servers to improve their performance and security, we have published a new option in the web application to help you have greater control over the tags you use in FacileThings, and we have worked on a new version of the mobile app, which will incorporate routine management. The new version of the mobile app is already in the testing phase, so it won’t take long to publish it. From now on, we will mainly work on integrating FacileThings with Zapier. Zapier is a service that allows you to connect all the ..read more

Gaining Perspective: 1. Gaining Perspective 2. Gaining Perspective Through Actions 3. Gaining Perspective at Project Level The project level is the level that follows in height the action level discussed in the previous article. In Getting Things Done (GTD), projects are defined generally as any result that can be achieved in less than a year and requires more than one action. According to this definition, any person can have an inventory of between thirty and one hundred pending projects at any given time, if all the issues related to personal and professional life are included. Projects can ..read more

Gaining Perspective: 1. Gaining Perspective 2. Gaining Perspective Through Actions In the following articles we will be describing in detail each one of the perspective horizons so that you can see exactly what they consist of and what you need to take into account to create the map that will help you focus correctly on the priority issues at any given moment. The lowest level or “runway”, as David Allen calls it, corresponds to the next actions, i.e. all the physical and visible actions that you can carry out at a given time. These can be the next actions you need to take to advance your pro ..read more

We mentioned a while ago that personal productivity is achieved through a balance between two elements: Organization. You need an efficient structure that allows you to store all your commitments, reminders and related materials. Good organization is the basis of any productive system and is achieved through control. Focus. You need something to help you concentrate without distractions on those commitments that are most important at any given moment. Meaningful work is achieved through perspective. Organization is quantitative work that gives you a tremendous sense of clarity, but it is no ..read more

Gaining Control Through Engaging: 1. Gaining Control Through the Engaging Step 2. The Usefulness of Clear Next Actions 3. Factors That Define Priorities for Action Let’s assume you’ve come this far in your quest to gain control through the implementation of your own GTD system, ie: You have captured everything that is relevant in your world. You have clarified what each thing means by identifying the next action to take. You have put reminders about it all in the appropriate lists. And you have made sure your system is complete and up-to-date. Now, you are probably wondering: how am I going ..read more

It’s common that when you’ve been using a personal productivity app for a long time that allows you to use tags to provide context to your tasks and classify all kinds of content, there comes a time when the number of tags you’ve generated becomes quite large. In the twelve years I’ve been using FacileThings, I’ve created and deleted many tags, and yet I still have a list of 174 tags in my system right now. To give you an idea, users who have been using the app for more than two years have an average of 120 tags. Some of these tags may have lost their meaning over time, and some may have been ..read more