When I wrote my last Scribbles post, I’d just settled on using the Mini Guildford Filofax. I ended that post with:
It’s quite possible I’ll be back to the Moleskine within a day or two, or that I’ll try to stretch my jeans pocket to cram in my Pocket Filofax. I have a worrying amount of fun trying them, though, and that’s the important thing.
I was writing that entry in the Filofax at the time, and by time I’d written it, I was feeling cramped on such small paper. It doesn’t help that the Mini paper has slightly wider lines than the larger Pocket paper. By the time I was typing that post up, I’d pretty much decided that the Mini was too small. I tried my old Pocket Lyndhurst again. It was good, with a lot more space for my notes, but a bit of a stretch on the pocket. Although they call that size “Pocket”, it’s only really for quite big pockets.
Continue reading about Yet Another Filofax Again - Pocket Guildford
I used to take the proverbial out of my husband for the way he’d constantly be fiddling around with his ’system’. He’d scribble his thoughts and ideas into notebooks, various sizes of filofax, various digital devices, but nothing really sticks and he’s always changing his mind. It seemed quite hilarious and very odd to me, until a week or so ago. As 2007 prepares for the final curtain and 2008 waits in the wings, I also find myself in need of a comfortable and reliable way of recording my food diaries and other bits and bobs.
Continue reading about Alright Michael, I get it. Now help me.
43Folders has just relaunched using Drupal. It’s looking really good so far - Merlin drafted in a few people who actually know what they’re doing with Drupal, where PigPog just had me and a poking-stick to try to make things work. If you’re into productivity pr0n and GTD stuff in any way, I’m sure you’re already a big fan of Merlin’s site, but it’s certainly worth going and having a fresh look.
Latest Update: A few minor changes, and adding a few more ideas, bringing the total up from 50 to 60.
Many of us want to be more creative in our day-to-day lives, so here are a few ideas to get you going - many of them very quick and easy…
Latest Update: Linked up a couple more systems under Mixing with Other Ideas. If you like the PigPogPDA idea, it’s well worth visiting some of these sites to see what other people have built with some similar ideas.
See Also
- nowMap - my latest simple system - a quick overview of what you’re doing now, on a single sheet.
(Click on any pics to see them bigger in Flickr, with any comments and notes.)
Introduction
What Is It?
- A
Moleskine hack. - An extreme Moleskine hack.
- A simplified
GTD system (What system? See our GTD Introduction), with relatively little actual organising. May be useful if you fancy Doing GTD Without Doing GTD. - A complete personal management system for those who’s needs aren’t too complicated.
- A rather over-the-top system for dealing with just the capturing and processing end of GTD.
Continue reading about PigPogPDA - A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System
Once you’ve been doing GTD for a while (however half-assed your implementation), you start to find yourself thinking in GTD terms. You spot something that needs doing in the living room, and your mind jumps straight to “Hmm - tidy side table needs to go on @Home.” The problem is that this isn’t how GTD is supposed to work. You’re supposed to just capture the fact that the side table is a mess, and process that note later. Once you get used to doing it, though, you shortcut through the steps and just find yourself wanting to stick the item straight on the appropriate list.
Continue reading about GTD: Processing Whilst Collecting - Is It a Problem?
There’s two little secrets and one Big Dirty Secret to GTD. Don’t get me wrong here - I like
(Drumroll…)
(Feeling the tension yet?)
(Maybe I’m giving this too much build-up.)
(Here goes…)
Introduction
I’m not really doing GTD any more. There. I’ve admitted it.
That feels better. Why? Well, it’s just too much to manage for the stuff I actually need to track. I can’t use a single system, as work related stuff has to remain at work, and personal stuff has to remain outside work’s systems. I suspect most people are in this situation, unlike the upper management level people David Allen tends to address his writing and seminars to.
At work, everything has to be in a specific online system, and there isn’t really the time to duplicate all that in another system to apply GTD to.
Latest Update: Just correcting a few links.
If you don’t already know what GTD is, you may want to have a look at our GTD Introduction explaining it. This article is just a look at a few of the different ways that GTD can be implemented. It’s not very in-depth on any method, and is only really intended to give you some ideas before I cover the method I use - GTD - The PigPog Method.
GTD is all based on David Allen’s excellent books. You’ll get far more from reading the books than from any web site.
- From Amazon US - Getting Things Done, Ready for Anything.
- From Amazon UK - Getting Things Done, Ready for Anything.
Introduction
As I mentioned in our GTD Introduction, one of the unusual things about GTD is that it presents you with a complete workflow for managing all the stuff you have to do, so it might seem like there’s not a lot of scope for different ways for implementing it. However, there’s a surprising range of ways people have found, some following the GTD system exactly, some varying from it in a few ways. In this article, We’ll cover a few different ways, just to give you some idea of the variation that’s out there. It’s not going to be comprehensive - I’m probably only even aware of a fraction of the ways out there. My article is about how I implement the GTD system, so it seems like a good idea to cover a bit of the variety out there first - the way I do it isn’t the only way.
GTD - Getting Things Done - is a book by David Allen, giving a series of principles for managing the day to day tasks and projects we all have to do. It is based on the idea that if we get everything that concerns us out of our heads, and into a single trusted system, which is then reviewed regularly, we will leave our minds clearer, and be better able to respond to new inputs.
GTD is all based on David Allen’s excellent books. You’ll get far more from reading the books than from any web site.
- From Amazon US: - Getting Things Done, Ready for Anything.
- From Amazon UK - Getting Things Done, Ready for Anything.