GTD Workflow with the Process Page

<aside> <img src="/icons/star_gray.svg" alt="/icons/star_gray.svg" width="40px" /> This video was made for Ultimate Brain 1.0, so the interface will look a little different if you’re using Ultimate Brain 2.0. However, the functionality and concepts are still the same, so you’ll still find this page helpful if you’re watching it! (Posted May 10, 2024)

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<aside> ✅ Ultimate Brain comes with an entire dashboard and several additional pages for using David Allen’s famous GTD®(Getting Things Done®) method to process everything that comes into your life.

Using the Process ****page is completely optional. Ultimate Brain has been designed so that you can simply use the normal Task Inbox and Note Inbox to process everything that comes into your system.

However, if you love the GTD method, the Process page is for you.

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<aside> ✅ GTD is all about capturing information and then figuring out what to do with it. It is a methodology for creating order from chaos.

To practice GTD, you first capture information - tasks, notes, ideas - in an inbox. In Ultimate Brain, that GTD-style inbox has a special name - Intake - in order to differentiate it from the classic, non-GTD inbox pages.

Secondly, you take time each day to process each item in your inbox. To do this, you follow the GTD algorithm displayed below.

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<aside> ✅ You can easily follow this processing algorithm right from the Process page. It consists of two main sections.

First, there is the Task Processing section. This shows you any tasks that have been captured in either the classic Task Inbox ****or on the GTD-style Intake ****page. Either place works as a capture destination!

What’s the difference between Task Inbox and Intake?

To process your tasks, add them to the correct GTD-style list:

Add a Due Date to put it on your Calendar (you’ll also see it on any time-based views in the Task Manager)
Apply a Snooze Date to put it on the Snooze list (AKA the “Tickler File”/”Incubated List” in GTD)
Apply one of the Smart List tags - Someday, Delegated, or Do Next.

Check out the tabbed views in the Task Processing view - you’ll see each of these GTD-style lists represented.

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📋 Task Processing

<aside> ✅ There are also dedicated pages for each of these GTD-style lists. You’ll find them linked at the top of the Process page, as well as inside its dropdown in the Sidebar.

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🎬 Dedicated GTD-Style Pages

<aside> ✅ Finally, the Note Processing section is a great place to process any Notes that have been captured in your Note Inbox.

Here, you can apply an Area, Resource, or Project to a note, as well as a Type if you choose.

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📝 Note Processing

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