Comments on: nowMap: Introduction

By: PigPogPDA – A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System :: PigPog

PigPogPDA – A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System :: PigPog — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:26:39 +0000

[...] nowMap – my latest simple system – a quick overview of what you’re doing now, on a single sheet. [...]

By: ivan

ivan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:19:38 +0000

I’m using my little moleskin in everyday work, and it’s fricking irreplaceable. God idea for tweeking but, I have a problem in downloading your pdf files. Can you check it out, I get the 404 page.

By: David Emmons

David Emmons — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:30:31 +0000

I diid a mindmap of the big things that I was working on for the month of may and unlike a list my boss could really get a sense of all the things I was working on. I started one for this month and it already is mostly full.

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:29:14 +0000

Hi Steve,

The links should be working again now.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:21:58 +0000

I can’t locate the nowMap A4 PDF download.

Could you restore the link?

Thanks

Steve

By: Joan M. Mas

Joan M. Mas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent idea. Actually, this is something that I do all the time, and I find it especially useful when I have intensive projects, with lots of related tasks to accomplish in a few days.

It lets you review instantly what needs to be done and what's better, monitor it showing the relationship with other items in the cluster of tags.

Mind maps are not only ideal to learn and to release your creativity, they are very good tools for organisation.

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, Joan. Yes, I can see how it would probably be especially useful when you’ve got a whole lot of related stuff to do. That might be why the idea came to me recently – with doing nothing but PigPog at the moment, most of the things I’m doing are fairly closely related to each other.

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the stimulating post! I do something similar, but once I’ve identified actionable items, waiting-fors, etc. I transfer them over to my GTD system, then throw away the map – it’s done its job. Some people do keep their old mind scans around – as a way to a) check progress (same crud should stop showing up after a while), and b) to note progress (good show – took care of that one, etc)

By: pigpogm

pigpogm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The idea was more to use this as the actions list - so the mind-map becomes your system. To be honest, though, I've not stuck with it myself - it was a nice idea that never really worked out for me. Still, some of these ideas end up working out well for someone else, so it's always good to share them.

At the moment, I'm using Outlook's tasks for most actionable stuff and writing, but scaled down to one '@Action' list, prefixing with context. It's enough for me right now. I'm also tending to use bits of paper for more ad-hoc planning and such - scribbled mind maps, or even just a quick-list for today's jobs.

By: sbn..

sbn.. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I'm having a hard time finding the right level of detail for my own planning system, it's a bit defunct now. Hoping to pick it up soon, but will have to simplify. This is inspiration for that, thanks.

Now, what I used to do was have a wad of really cheap A6 cards on a single binder-ring (expensive stuff like Moleskine notebooks are intimidating to me). Then I'd take the smallest post-it pads I could find and cut them into even smaller strips - 3 or 4, giving me approx. 5 cm by 1.5 cm stickies.

Then I'd write my tasks on those, and use one page in the book as a "current" page. This has the advantage that you can't fit too many items in your current list at a time, and you can rearrange as needed. It was a great feeling discarding those stickies after a job was done.

The way I bound my notebook kept things pressed together, something like the Moleskine, and that was enough to keep the tiny stickies in place.