Getting Things Done Ep. 355: Slice of GTD Life with Scott Adams
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Mar 25, 2026 
Scott Adams, cartoonist and AI experimenter, walks through prompts he uses to make AI support GTD workflows. He discusses choosing engines, uploading reference docs, linking email and calendar, and creating a single-source GTD assistant. Practical demos include generated daily reviews, command triggers like "run daily review," and device-agnostic web access.
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Connect AI Assistant To Email And Calendar
- Link your AI GTD assistant to your email and calendar so it can pull events and messages for reviews.
- Scott ties his personal Gmail and Google Calendar so the agent can surface upcoming meetings and related inbox items during a daily review.
Pick Engines For Their Strengths
- Different AI engines display different strengths: Perplexity for detail/research and Claude for writing quality.
- Scott found Perplexity best for detailed research results while Claude excelled at crafting written output.
AI Generates Scott's Sunday School Lessons And Reviews
- Scott uses the AI to generate his Sunday school lessons by uploading reference files and prompting the assistant.
- He showed a Perplexity history entry that produced a daily GTD review with meeting-specific next actions like his call with John Forrester.