The best time management book I have ever read and been able to sucessfully apply!
If you have a job where you never can say, "Well I've finished my to do list and i can go home feeling good about my accomplishments for the day!" this is the book for you. Also if you struggle with procrastination this book is fantastic. No other method has come close to helping address procrastination and time management.
I have read MANY books on time management and this one is tops in my book.

This is THE book on time management, the one and only. I've been applying its very simple and straightforward principles for over 5 years now, and I'm happy as the proverbial pig. I've no idea where I would have been without it now.

It teaches you everything you need to know (which isn't very much but is super smart and nothing like the stale "time management" advice other books offer - what the guy says is seriously unique) in order to organize your workload. By the time I was done with this book, I was a different person. As a freelancer working from home, I always end up with a huge workload I can't possibly handle on my own. This book teaches you exactly how to do it. I started by "declaring a backlog" (as he teaches) and guess what? - it was the first and last backlog I had to do because these days I'm constantly on schedule!

Please please please guys, if you need advice on time management and organizational skills, buy, borrow or steal this book. It might be the last one you'll ever need. No other books on the subject - including some international bestsellers I won't mention - are anywhere near this one. They don't even scratch the surface. Forster got it all covered. If he happens to read this, I'd love to thank him for giving me my life back.

Хорошая и ёмкая книга про тайм-менеджемент и продуктивность. Автор делает акцент на рабочей стороне жизни, поэтому примеров касательно личной жизни и личной продуктивности мало.

I love to-do lists and they keep growing! I have several commitments, business activities and social events. Sometimes, it’s hard to find “time for myself”. And as the to-do lists keep on growing, motivation can reach zero %. This book has an interesting point-of-view; procrastination is encouraged. There are lots of exercices and I encourage every reader to complete them!

My life has changed since I applied the “Do it tomorrow” system. To-do lists don’t grow anymore, It feels like I have more time for myself and I still maintain control and overview (which is important for me). Sounds impossible to you? Admittedly, I didn’t believe either this method would work. But for me, it works. Order your book today, and start reading it tomorrow.

The book gives clear instructions, personal opinions and has a clear index. The concepts are clearly defined and the idea’s of the author are well developed.

It was a positive surprise. A book that when I started to read it, I thought that it was to reading at other time and I learn a lot about management.

Simple and straightforward, makes complete sense.

Just open the last chapter and look at it - anything new and interesting? Go on. By the way, this list at the end is still good and pretty much relevant today. If not - do not bother.
Well, the book is not bad and is an easy read. It has a lot of good stuff in it which i would love to know like 10 years ago. But yeah, all this advice from Forster is from that era, 10-20 years ago. Something is still useful, something is out of date, something was reconsidered and so on.
If you are new to the topic in general - it is a good read. But beware - time-management is dead as concept (now it is something like energy-management).
If you have read plenty of productivity books - there is nothing much you will find here.

Зачем читать: чтобы узнать новый подход к организации дел, наконец-то разобраться с завалами и запустить систему, чтобы эти завалы не образовывались.

Принципы системы Форстера:
* Имейте четкое видение — устанавливайте границы действий чтобы понимать не только то, что вы собираетесь делать, но и то, чего вы делать не собираетесь.
* Делайте дела по очереди — не надо прыгать с дела на дело как матрос с брамселя на бушприт, доделали одно, принимайтесь за другое.
* Работайте понемногу и часто — мозгу, как и телу, нравится регулярная и посильная нагрузка. Правило помидора в помощь.
* Устанавливайте границы — границы помогают сосредоточиться. Границы темы, материала, приёмов, инструментов. В том числе временные границы.
* Ведите закрытые списки — в закрытый список ничего нельзя добавить. Он не отвлекает вас на добавление новой работы и он не может стать больше, только меньше.
* Уменьшайте число случайностей.
* Ставьте обязательства выше интереса — из интереса не выйдет ничего стоящего, если он не превратится в обязательство. Если мы принимаем обязательство, то должны отказаться от много другого.

This is a straight-forward, functional approach to time management. I needed to interpret the principles for my work setting as it was not written specifically for someone who has much of their day scheduled in therapy sessions, however, the system is simple and flexible enough to fit a variety of interpretations. I read this book almost two years ago, and now that some time has passed I can tell you that it is like Weight Watchers. If you do the plan it works. It can absolutely be a life-changer.

Další z mé tzv. záchodové četby (knihy, které mě nějak extra nevzaly, ale přesto je mám a někde je přečíst chci i když to trvá pár měsíců), která mě mile překvapila svým jiným pohledem na time management. Byla plná ne úplně užitečných otázek a odpovědí (cvičení), ale i tak mi zpříjemnila chvíle. Existuje spousta mnohem lepších knih z tohoto odvětví — mít vše hotovo, zen a hotovo, snězte tu žábu, jak získat hodinu denně atd.

I found that I had already developed a lot of the suggestions as my own way of doing things, but I found the idea of a "Current Initiative" to be a better idea than my usual method of keep transferring a "to do" and never actually doing it because it seemed overwhelming.

Dear Mark Forster,

I have spent most of the last 3 days with your thoughts from the book "Do It Tomorrow" as my constant companions and conversation partners. I read the book, highlighting and commenting, and then organized those thoughts into a rough outline of the key concepts of the book, and then spent all day today attempting to grasp the concepts as a whole at some level of firmness, summing them up under the headings: Commitments, Open/Closed Lists, Current Initiatives, Supporting Organizational Structures.

As I walked around my house today, I saw my entire life as a set of mostly unbalanced commitments leading to the current state of underperforming dysfunction that partially defines my life, housed in helplessly impotent open lists, with a growing and untidily heaped set of stale initiatives that haven't found their place at the top of any list for so long that I think they probably wonder if they are orphans after all.

Today, I have felt a bit like I am a new violin student, with my instructor manipulating my analogous elbows and wrists and fingers and chin in a contorted way, attempting to massage my body into a new and alien position, but one that will eventually become comfortable as an old sweatshirt.

My preposterous attempt at an intentionally closed list (for the first time in my life, in a sense) for my work today gave the lie to my thinking that I have some handle on how I work and have some prodigious estimating skills, and can predict how long something will take. This is the beginning of wisdom I think...and I now engage in my second attempt, sobered and alert that this is a new skill for which my habits and assumptions have poorly equipped me.

Where I have felt like a bit of an expert, someone to whom people come for advice and feedback about personal management systems, I once again feel like a novice, and it is kind of enchanting, that feeling of walking through the wardrobe into a new an previously unexplored land, but one which is also very much my native land, as Chesterton explained once, he went out and discovered a new and exotic land, only to discover that it was his familiar England...the thoughts you have expressed in your book have been with me in inchoate form for many years, and suddenly I hear them as if for the first time, and I find that they are familiar, but familiar in such a was as a child noticing his fingers for the first time...they have been there all along, but having not been focused on, appear foreign for a bit.

Well that all sounds kind of prosy and artificial, but it is in fact deeply true. It has been quite an unusual few days. I put my life completely on hold because as I started to read the book at the recommendation of a good friend, and was a few pages in, I recognized that this book was going to be one of the big ones, a watershed book which would change the the topography of my planning and execution...so I put everything on hold and dove in.

Now, I will be getting back to my life in it's normal forms, but with new patterns of thought beginning to alter how I plan and walk through my days and weeks.
So: thank you for expending the time and energy that it took to sort out your own thoughts and then wrangle them onto the published page...I know that is no small feat! But I have been the beneficiary of your labor and willingness to share, and so will those be who I influence and work for and have commitments to.

Respectfully, David Clark