Getting Things Done – David Allen

My favorite book for organizing your paper/information life. His central idea is keeping information in your head distracts you and makes you less efficient. You need to have a system that you can trust to capturing all the information you need to remember. Great ideas about how to process all the information coming in, manage to-do lists (for starters, you need more than one), track information associated with particular calendar dates. I was pretty organized to start with, but this has made my life much better. The method has been adopted by various online geeks, who refer to it as GTD, so there is tons of ancillary information and discussion at places like 43folders.com.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
2002
Available from Amazon