Game Design – Week 10 – GTD – Getting Things Done – Part 2
Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day. – from LifeHacker.com
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World
SUMMARY
Pretty much all I did was catch up on late work and do homework
PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the scripting languages below, Javascript (PlayCanvas) or C# (Unity) (NOT BOTH)
PlayCanvas – Javascript
Unity – C#
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
The key to productivity is to designate new tasks that you have to do as either actionable- that which you can actively do and finish, or unactionable- ones that you can’t work on and finish. To compliment that you need some sort of system to track and keep whatever your working on neet and tidy in one space
LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed
- Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
- Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below
GTD-based Trusted System
- Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
- A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done
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- Trello.com with a – GTD Template
- We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
- You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
- You might want to start now
- We start using Trello in the second semester
- Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
- You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
- We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
- Your phone
- Paper and pen or pencil
- Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
- Trello.com with a – GTD Template
OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)
OPTIONAL EXERCISE
STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 15 minutes
- Then watch David Allen summarize the steps
- “Very simple folks! …
- Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
- Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
- Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
- And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
- You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
- And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
- It’s that simple…”
- “Very simple folks! …
- ‘Capture’ all the ACTION ITEMS you can in your GTD Trusted System
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
I learned that when you dumb it down enough its not complicated what so ever he’s just saying to decide whether or not to do it now or later and have some sort of tool that helps you not forget it.