{"id":8509,"date":"2008-06-02T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtdtimes.com\/2008\/06\/02\/how-can-i-ramp-up-quickly-with-gtd-lotus-notes\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:33:48","slug":"how-can-i-ramp-up-quickly-with-gtd-lotus-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/2008\/06\/how-can-i-ramp-up-quickly-with-gtd-lotus-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;How can I ramp up quickly with GTD Lotus Notes?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gtdandlotusnotesdocumentcover.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gtdtimes\/2008\/06\/gtdandlotusnotesdocumentcover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gtdtimes\/2008\/06\/gtdandlotusnotesdocumentcover.jpg\" alt=\"gtdandlotusnotesdocumentcover.jpg\" width=\"225\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Recently, an executive at a large global consulting firm with over 100K Lotus Notes users called me to ask for help getting up to speed with GTD and Notes. He told me that he was feeling overwhelmed at work with a growing number of projects and responsibilities and in his pursuit of a solution he had found and read David Allen&#8217;s book, Getting Things Done. He was also aware that while Lotus Notes is an excellent tool for messaging, collaboration, and information management, it wasn&#8217;t supporting him in the way that he needed. He was calling to get <a href=\"http:\/\/eproductivity.com\">eProductivity<\/a> for Lotus Notes and some coaching to help him set up Notes to be more productive. After a fruitful conversation, and my promise to help him, he asked me, &#8220;How can I ramp up quickly with GTD &amp; Lotus Notes?&#8221;  (I get asked this question a lot, so I decided to write a short e-mail that would be very helpful and something that I could reuse again the next time the question arose.)  I promised to send him an email that night with some lessons I had learned and some tips for getting things done with Lotus Notes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my e-mail turned into an 6-part essay of my lessons learned and recommendations from the past 15 years of using Notes and the GTD methodology.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next several days, I will take a look at the methodology (GTD) and the Technology parts of the equation&#8230; and share my experience and response to this person&#8217;s question of how to ramp up quickly with GTD &amp; Lotus Notes.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to follow-along and join me in conversation about this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, an executive at a large global consulting firm with over 100K Lotus Notes users called me to ask for help getting up to speed with GTD and Notes. 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