Good discussion on (part of) an old video.
I suggest to go back to the basics to see what is possible, what not and why.
(some philosophical intro before the SW stuff)
1. there was (is and will be) a universal organizing process behind EVERY doing. It was so before scribd was invented, and it will be so when robots will (eventually replace humans).
2. The sequential process: 1. getting input - 2. evaluating it, if something needs to be done, then (3. postponing it, 4. selecting it, and then) DOING it.
3. until recently (last 50 years) this process was of low intensity, DOING was the limiting factor/bottleneck of human existence, nobody cared much about the org process, it was done intuitively (mostly during doing - manual- work). it was mostly clear what needs to be done next.
4. But progress made DOING less tedious AND intensified the first step of organising process (and forced people doing at least the second)
5. "Organizing doing" became the bottleneck. the intuitive way of organizing became insufficient.
time management came about. Usually targeting PARTS of the org process (nobody saw the whole process...)
then came David A. and described the WHOLE org. process and added a fifth step (if there is moch stuff deferred, much will become obsolete, and regular review is necessary). Hence GTD is simply the complete set of principles of "organizing life".
Please note that despite of the popular notion, GTD is NOT ABOUT DOING.
It is about Getting to doing (the ENGAGE step is only SELECTING the best option to be done...)
GTD never deals with how to garden, make surgery or plumbing. It deals with the common, organizing part of ALL these.
Now to the SW:
1. Capturing is best aided by tools, the question is only whether ALL sources can be automatically routed to a reasonable set of Inboxes (if you have seen Black Mirror - it might come - as a "life recorder"). Not yet there.
2. Clarifying is done by our brain, with our COMPLETE context in mind. If AI will know myself better that I do - it can do my clarification.
(and for simple things it can try even now, under my supervision. It can suggest an action for the email, but is does not know that I met my boss at the cofee machine and that chenged context). For now, I would not TRUST it the full Clarification.
3. This is the easiest part - calendar and lists can be implemented in plenty of tools since decades - but with the limitations given in point 2
4. review - AI can give suggestions, or open ended questions to facilitate stuff
5. engage (= select) can be partially facilitated by proper questions and supprted with checklists.
6. All higher horizons ("my map of life") can be included in a SW as reference (mindmaps, lists, whatever personal format preference you have, even a simple word doc is OK). AI/SW can aid with questions - but I think the THINKING about these will happen in our brains for a long time
maybe you have seen the so far best attempts on "full GTD systems": IQTELL and ctrlAlpha - unfortunately both discontinued for the same reason.
Money and
Data Privacy - routing ALL possible inputs into its universal inbox (plenty of APIs, access rights to everything, etc...)
there are ongoing attempts too - will fail similarly.
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this is the state of stuff now (as I know of).
