American productivity consultant who developed Getting Things Done (GTD) — a systematic method for capturing, organizing, and executing tasks that became the dominant personal productivity framework for knowledge workers globally.
Developed the GTD system — capture everything, clarify next actions, organize by context, review regularly — which reduced 'open loops' (incompletely processed commitments) that Allen identified as the primary source of stress and cognitive friction in modern knowledge work.
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