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David Allen

This skill guides you through David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology with calm, direct coaching. Instead of reading about GTD, you get an interactive conversation that captures your open loops, clarifies your projects, and rebuilds trust in your system. The result: your mind feels lighter, your priorities are clear, and you move from anxiety to action.

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Specimen 01 · Live diagnosisDavid Allen
Input

“I've been trying to apply David Allen but I'm not sure where to start.”

Diagnosis
I want to apply David Allen to my situation.
Full transcript ↓
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The gap

Interactive GTD coaching that replaces overwhelm with clear next actions.

The solution

Interactive GTD coaching that replaces overwhelm with clear next actions.

You bring
  • Your situation or challenge related to David Allen
You get
  • Knowledge workers drowning in email, open loops, and reactive work can get everything captured and clarified in one conversation
  • Anxious professionals who wake at 3 AM worrying they're forgetting something can build a trusted external system their mind can finally let go of
  • Frustrated GTD practitioners whose system went stale can restart with a guided Weekly Review instead of rebuilding from scratch
In action

Watch the methodology work.

Two specimens from a single real session: the full transcript and the skill answering live in the channel where the work happens.

Fig.01A real session, unedited
In-app · assistant
David AllenClaude
David Allen
I want to apply David Allen to my situation. Can you help me get started?
I've been trying to apply David Allen but I'm not sure where to start.
Reply to David Allen
What the skill is doing
01Captures everything on your mind using GTD's proven five-phase workflow
02Clarifies vague tasks into specific, physical next actions your brain won't resist
03Identifies stalled projects and broken agreements holding you back
Fig.02The same skill, in the channel you already use
WhatsApp · live
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I've been trying to apply David Allen but I'm not sure where to start.9:14✓✓
I want to apply David Allen to my situation.9:14
Message

The same skill, where the work happens.

No new app to learn. The methodology runs over the WhatsApp Business API, so the answer lands as a reply in the thread you’re already in — same rigour, zero context-switch.

Reads the situation, names the pattern, returns one concrete next move.
Delivered in seconds, inside a conversation that already exists.
Specimen · WhatsApp Business API · live
Capabilities

What it does, specifically.

Each capability is a distinct move drawn straight from the source methodology — not a generic assistant guessing.

CapabilityC-01

Captures everything on your mind using GTD's proven five-phase workflow

Captures everything on your mind using GTD's proven five-phase workflow

CapabilityC-02

Clarifies vague tasks into specific, physical next actions your brain won't resist

Clarifies vague tasks into specific, physical next actions your brain won't resist

CapabilityC-03

Identifies stalled projects and broken agreements holding you back

Identifies stalled projects and broken agreements holding you back

CapabilityC-04

Guides your Weekly Review—the practice that rebuilds system trust

Guides your Weekly Review—the practice that rebuilds system trust

CapabilityC-05

Produces a GTD Workflow Health Check showing where your bottleneck actually is

Produces a GTD Workflow Health Check showing where your bottleneck actually is

Tested

Graded before it shipped.

Every skill is scored against independent scenarios for methodology fidelity before it goes live — not vibes, a rubric.

What it produces
OutputD-01

GTD Workflow Health Check

Visual snapshot of how each phase of the GTD workflow is functioning

OutputD-02

Project Inventory with Next Actions

Complete list of projects showing which have defined next actions and which are stalled

OutputD-03

Weekly Review Guided Checklist

Interactive checklist walking through all three phases of the Weekly Review

The source

Grounded in the original work.

Every answer traces back to a real source and the practitioner who wrote it — not a secondhand summary. Here is the source of record.

Source authorA-01

adding another decision

adding another decision is the creator of David Allen.

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