

David Allen suggests using an A-Z filing system to limit the number of places that something could be. If you’re a paper person, you’ll want to invest in a filing cabinet. Here are the four: Reference Materialįor all the items you collect that have no action assigned, you’ll need a place for long-term storage. Keep in mind that some tools can do more than one. You’re looking to put four different systems in place. Think about what you need and search for that. What works for you? What do you want in an app? Don’t go out there looking at everything that might work. With the app boom in full swing there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of to-do managers out there.īut you have to step back and think about it. People can spend hours researching and testing potential apps, websites, and services.

This is where you set up tools for tracking each bucket from the Clarify step.
