Genrealisations are generalisations. You can always find exceptions.

But I’ll change “Europeans” to “Latin” or “Non anglo-saxon / Non germanic” cultures, which admittedly leaves out a lot of Europeans.

Anyway, my point was that GTD and the very notion of trying to come up with such systems is a product of a certain cultural mindset. I think most French, Italians, Spanish, Belgians (Walloons) etc. would dismiss the idea as hopeless the minute it crossed their minds, in the unlikely event that it would.

And that, is just plain interesting to me, as a cross-cultural person, with one metaphorical foot on each side of the Atlantic.

Oh, I like these generalizations. Maybe all people in France focus on differences but I know many people in Poland, Germany, Scandinavia and UK that prefer GTD.

Americans like to put things in neat categories and boxes. Europeans like to find connections between things, preferably seemingly unrelated things. In other words, American culture focuses on what makes things the same, while European culture focuses on what makes things different. Binary vs. Analog in a way.

GTD and other such methods are definitely culture-biased, and feel like a straightjacket to a non-binary, shades of gray people. Even your simple matrix is too confining for me, because all sorts of things can overlap the available choices, not to mention the fact that things (and boxes) are dynamic and evolve all the time.

Flame away.

I use Doris, which you can find here: http://beta.dorisapp.com/en/

I reviewed it on WWD a few months ago.

Of course that is not correct: the main point of this approach is learn how to distinguish between urgency and importance. If you understand this you can reach highest level of your productivity.