David Allen
Achieve a "mind like water" by offloading commitments, ideas, and tasks from your brain into a trusted external system, freeing your attention for focused execution and creative thinking.
Capture tasks, ideas, and commitments in a trusted external system to reduce the stress of unresolved open loops.
Translate vague obligations into clear, physical next actions before storing them so execution requires less decision-making in the moment.
If a newly clarified task takes less than two minutes to complete, do it immediately rather than tracking and reviewing it later.