[zeitlupe]

> An hour is not even close to being enough. A whole weekend may get you to 50%.

This is one problem I have with GTD: It talks and talks about collecting and sorting tasks but does not care much about whether you should do them in the first place. It invites overloading yourself with tasks and want-to-dos instead of thinking about if that tasks are truly important to you in the light of a perpetual shortage of time to do all the stuff you would like to.

[dougskinner]

I don't think this is an accurate assessment. Yes, GTD wants you to get everything out of your head and onto the "paper" in front of you. And yes, this might take a long time for some people, up to hours or days. But the key thing is it's all written down. Once it is, then you go through the collected inputs and actually figure out what to do with them. But you can't do that while your brain is still going "did I write this other thing down?" You need a clear mind before you start processing.

[Jtsummers]

https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/

The five basic steps of GTD:

1. Capture

2. Clarify

3. Organize

4. Reflect

5. Engage

(2) and (4), in particular, deal with whether the actions are worth doing along with the when and where of doing them. Which is covered in all the decent summaries I've read and the book itself.