Rest in Peace Mark Forster

A Message from Mark Forster’s Son

It is with deep sadness that I share the news of my father, Mark Forster’s passing. He died peacefully in his sleep late on Sunday, 12th October 2025, without pain.

For nearly a year, my father had been living with Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a condition that arose following two previous battles with cancer. In recent months, MDS affected his memory, making it increasingly difficult for him to manage his website.

Get Everything Done has been a central part of his life since he published his first book over twenty years ago. He took great joy in the community that grew around it and was proud to play even a small role in helping others improve their lives.

On his behalf, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to Get Everything Done - whether through conversation, support, or shared ideas. Your presence meant a great deal to him.

Matthew

Comments

[Chris Davidson]

Very sad to hear; his work has been very impactful and had been returning to review his books once more, to see this sad news. RIP; excellent legacy left in the TM space.

[James Kuijpers]

I am so sorry for your loss. Mark's Auto Focus experiments were very helpful for me to play around with as well. I am sorry to see him go. But at least he touched many lives and put himself out there. His influence will continue to be felt.

Again, my condolences and deepest symptathies.

[Samantha]

My condolences to the family and to all the forumers here who I know will miss Mark very much.
Once I found DIT I felt I had finally arrived.
I couldn't look at any other system
But instead refined and refined and refined
Until it felt and still feels quite perfect for my mind.
His thoughts and insightful comments on so many other areas
However it's his take on decision making which stands out the most to me.
I can't come to the funeral it's so far away
But I will have a copy of his book and a toast to raise

Sincere condolences to all
I am really gutted by this news, to be honest.
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[Eugenia]

I am just reading this post and am so sad to learn about Mark's passing.
My deepest condolences to you and your family.

I started using Autofocus at its launch, and did the Spanish translation of the instructions, back in 2008 or 2009.
I have followed the blog, tried various of Mark's systems, and read all of his books.
The influence of his ideas in my life has been huge. Autofocus is a work of genius.

Your father was a most kind and generous person, sharing his ideas and thought processes so freely and creating an uncommonly civil online community.

May his memory be a blessing to you all.

Eugenia

[Edward]

My deepest condolences. Mark was an inspiration, and has enriched the lives of many people, including mine.

Anna and Matthew, if you get the chance to keep this site (even in a read only version) running, it would help keeping Mark's legacy alive.

[Tommaso Coniglio]

Dear Matthew, dear Anna,

my deepest condolences for the loss of your father, a wonderful person who truly helped and inspired countless people, including myself, into making the best use of our limited time on earth.

His teachings and experiments got me out of a rut: I was following overly complex and structured systems that instead of helping me get more things done actually stifled productivity and locked me into a cage.

Mark's systems are very practical, dynamic and fun, they respect my natural inclinations and personality style. He was such a great teacher, never putting himself above his "students", which he treated with utmost respect, as his peers.

As a tribute, I decided to share with this wonderful Forum a Notebook LM I created, which contains instructions to his time management systems, with the possibility of diving deep into every system, compare and contrast, and access guided learning through chat. The sources include Mark's own official instructions plus the comments from this forum, which provide precious insights, tips and variations. Some audio overviews are provided, I can add more if of interest.

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/e9b02b2a-1b55-4750-af9a-35e5798b8124

Again my heartfelt condolences, and may Mark's legacy live on!

Tommaso

[Mark H.]

Tommaso,

I checked out your Notebook LM. Thanks. I have been using ChatGPT to explore Mark Forster's thinking, and it has been helpful to me.

[Rain Perry]

Please accept my condolences. I found his method and his website a joy.

[Bernie]

WITH GRATITUDE,
I fondly remember Mark's gentle, encouraging, and stern missives spurring us on to Get Everything Done!

As this THANKSGIVING approaches, I thought of checking on this web site, where I spent so much time in the 2010s and enjoyed the company of this crackling community fueled by Mark's brilliant creations and our team spirit of productivity. I still use many of Mark's techniques today--and still continue to tweak them. I am sad for all of us who are now missing him, but I know that Mark had a voyager's spirit and was well prepared to depart on his latest journey.

THANK YOU to Mark's ancestors and family for bringing him to this world to share his genius with us.

TO MARK, may your list be always fresh and your Question effortless.

[Taran]

Sincerest condolences for your loss. I hope your memories of him are a source of comfort.

[Josh Newman]

Finding this belatedly, but posting my appreciation nonetheless, especially for those who find Mark's work in the future.

Mark made, without a doubt, the biggest single impact on my ability to get things done. I owe him more gratitude than I can express.

Rest in peace, Mark. Your legacy continues to improve lives.

[Stephen]

What sad news. Deepest condolences to you the whole family, and his friends.

Mark’s works have helped me get a grip of the chaos of life when it was about to overwhelm me. I was just reading one of his books this morning, and I owe him a lot. He will continue to give perspective, clarity, and hope to people across the world. What a legacy.

[Dan]

I'm very sorry to hear of Mark's passing.

I was fortunate enough to read Getting Everything Done about 20 years ago and am still using Mark's techniques today in my 40s. Mark's systems will be with me forever.

I was lucky enough to get an email reply from the great man a few years ago when I emailed him to say how much his methods had helped me in my life.

THANK YOU for all that you did Mark. You will always be a significant and important person in my life.

[Sathya]

Very sad to hear this.
Mark has been a source of inspiration.
And more importantly, every time, I read his content, I deeply felt understood and cared for the struggles and challenges I'm going through.
Deeply regret this. I hope the community continues to carry forward his legacy of his words and works. And help reach more and more people who found solace in Mark's insights and wisdom.

[Peter Butler]

I just read of Mark’s death now, January 12, 2026. I love the man and his ideas. I never had direct contact or communication with him but his spirit was so alive in his posts and in his book.

Every single day I am making use of his techniques. Particularly auto-focus4 and final version. I have turned many friends onto his ideas.

Rest in peace Mark;
And peace to your family.

[Jason Brett]

I'm so sorry for your loss. I learned of Mark's passing last week when I was telling a friend about "the best priority management system I've ever used" and went to look it up for him. Mark's work has been transformational to my life and my career. I discovered AutoFocus in 2006 or 2007 and have used a version of AF or FV for most of my life since.

Thanks so much to Mark for his contributions and the community he created. You will be missed and remembered.

When this site was down over the holidays, I feared it was gone forever, so I created an archive blog post for FVP on my productcoffee.com website. I'll be pleased to update it and point back to this website for as long as it exists.

[Jon]

I've spent my life on a constant quest for self organisation (it turned out later I had ADHD, which made sense of the struggle). Mark's revised auto focus was the first method I found that made the growing pile of undone tasks feel lighter - and the first I consistently used, rather than procrastinating by setting up a perfect self-organisation system, only to be overwhelmed by trying to use it.

I learned today that he had passed, and I wanted to express my gratitude for the impact he had on my life. I designed systems and work processes in operations management & focused on making them easy to use - I learned that making something that works and is complicated is easy (and it can feel compelling to create and maintain systems like that), but to create something that works which is simple, to which people say "that seems obvious, why didn't we always do it like that?" is incredibly difficult. I admire the skill of people who can do that, and I think Mark was on such.

I'm actually excited to learn that I have some catching up to do on those ideas.

I'm grateful that he put his ideas out into the world where I was able to find them. Thank you Mark.

[Brandon]

I have just noticed Mark Forster passed away last year. I send my condolences to his family and will light a candle for him at church. I first came across Mark Forster via the Observer article “Dial-a-minder saved my life". It was 2000, and I was struggling to manage both my own work and a busy team of policy and commissioning staff, all of whom were older and more experienced than I was.

At that time, aside from Getting Things Done (which I tried and did not like), the information on Time management was rather ropey. What I liked about Mark's book, Get Everything Done: And Still Have Time to Play, was that he wrote as someone who had made every time-management mistake in the book. He also exposed some of the fallacies in the much-championed ideas on the topic.

I applied many of the ideas in Do it Tomorrow and convinced myself this was best for me, but in truth, I often find myself going back to How to Make Your Dreams Come True, and particularly his self-coaching technique. I did one of Mark's workshops and got him up to the Midlands to do a presentation to the team of senior managers. I have reread many of his books and gone through periods when I applied his ideas regularly and times when I got into my usual messes, only to return to his principles often by reapplying the Getting Going Again blog guide on this website.

I have numerous journal entries and other records of my attempts to use his techniques, including his Autofocus. I think I did the Lenten challenge three times and completed it twice! The only approach that compares favourably is the Bullet Journal approach. He was a kind, thoughtful man who particularly tried to incorporate the psychology of distraction and motivation into his techniques. As I say, I shall pray for him.

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