I do use GTD at home. At first it seemed weird, but it makes sense just to have all of my commitments in the same system. Psychic RAM gets used for uncaptured personal projects too!

I never even tried to get my wife to use GTD. I offered her the book, but she never took me up on it. However, GTD is not about making other people fit your system… it’s about having a system that you use and maintain for yourself. If you take care of capturing the way you should anyway, the other members of your household shouldn’t have to do anything different than they’ve always done. Make it your own responsibility to write things down and track them as necessary.

I was converted by my partner.

We do use it extensively at home. We our own web-based app, and just about everything gets entered as a task and delegated. Or sometimes set up as a shared project we can both access and work from, depending on what the project is.

We also don’t expect the other person to act on anything unless it’s been written down or typed into the system. With extended family that aren’t GTD-ers, I either ask if they can hold on a second so I can grab a pen and capture something or ask them to send me email so I can forward any follow up into my system.

With both of us at home using GTD, I’m really happy with the effect it’s had. It means we spend time together talking about things that aren’t just the administrative overhead of living as a couple. It also does a great job of eliminating the subtle irritations of “I asked you to help you x and you forgot”.

For paper mail we pretty much just grab it, pull out whatever one of us needs to deal with, and pass off the other stuff to the inbox of the other person.

It’s pervasive enough in our shared life that while I was in the middle of something else yesterday and needed to capture an action as I thought of it, so I resorted to “do you have your phone? Could you please Jott me to send the info on jP’s to my friend for her happy hour?” Which, I realize, may be a bit dorkier than what most people’s significant others would find normal…

My wife was in the middle of her Masters program and was having a difficult time dealing with the inputs in her life. I helped her with a short course of GTD, which followed up post-semester with reading the book.

Now, she and I are a Getting Things Done team. We both use OmniFocus, me more than her, and we constantly send things back and forth via email. That is our task “inbox”, due to the trail it leaves.

We have setup several physical “inboxes” or landing strips to collect and keep cellphones, all of our office supplies, and incoming and outgoing mail.

We also have the understanding that if one is capturing ideas, that they shouldn’t be disturbed (nothing like having an idea, getting it half way out and then getting knocked off track).

The wife and I have also incorporated a weekly review session into our Sunday morning breakfast. We discuss what was good about the past week and plan for the next, which has been very valuable leading up to the birth of our first child. It is also a time where we can pull each other back on the bandwagon, if one of us slips up.

I think augmentedFourth’s answer is very, very important. Before I got the wife on GTD, I made adjustments to make GTD work for me. Just like at work, I can’t get my boss to GTD, but I can take that input and put it into my system. And yes, it is weird when you finally have a list of the projects and home. Even weirder when your friends know about it and think you are a little anal.