Friday, 3. August 2007, 17:03:10
Though my GTD system is not complete and I don't really dump everything into projects, I still maintain a stable working process which is better than before. Now I know why David Allen mentions that you should schedule a period of 2 or 3 hours for your idea dumping. I am a little drown with recent research works. This is why I don't have the overall projects listed in my book.
Besides, I bought a MUJI Passport Cover for keeping my 2 Moleskine Cahiers. If I put cahiers in my bag, they may be bent or twisted in my crowded bag. With MUJI Passport Cover, I can put my cahiers and some reference papers in it. If you want to buy a cover or protector for your moleskine cahiers, you may seek for the Passport Cover which is a little bit big than the passport since cahier is a little higher than the passport.
Tuesday, 31. July 2007, 16:22:42
Finally, except owned Moleskine Ruled Pocket, I bought Moleskine Cahier. I decide to use 2 of Cahier for my Next Action(NA) List and Project List. One of the concerns about pen and paper GTD is how many pages to be reserved for each category. We can not predict precise pages being used in the future. Thus I come up another way.
I use the removable(reattachable) color clear tags for each category, such as HOME/OFFICE(3), COMPUTER(5), ERRANDS(7), PEOPLE(9), SHOPPING(11), and WAITING(13). I tag HOME/OFFICE at P.3, COMPUTER at P.5, ..., WAITING at P.13. In this way, I will use P.2 and P.3 to record NA lists of HOME/OFFICE. If any pages of the category is full, such as SHOPPING, I take off the tag from P.11 and reattach it at P.15. If P.11 still contains some items, I will rewrite them on P.15 when fewer items, otherwise there will be two tags of SHOPPING on P.11 and P.15.
What if I need three tags for SHOPPING? I think I may need to make a lot of money first before I can check them out.
Be serious, maybe I should rearrange and rethink about my lists. Why are there so many undone items?
Wednesday, 11. July 2007, 10:56:37
As many people indicating, I am also overwhelmed by so many wonderful and classic tools for my GTD implementation. I used Pocket Informant on my Pocket PC (Toshiba E750 and Dell X50V) then I return back to papers and pens. I have a A5 Filofax Organizer but it is too big for commuters like me. Then I bought a Pocket Filofax Organizer and I thought it a little thicker. Now I am a little distracted by MOLESKINE. I have used MOLESKINE but it was meant to work as INBOX.
I am thinking to use MOLESKINE RULED POCKET as the calender and POCKET CAHIERs as my Next Action (NA) Lists and Project Lists. To separate NA and Project lists into two separate books has a benefit, it is easier to check each project with corresponding NAs. Besides, I do not really need to grab three books (Calendar, NA List, Project List) at the same time except weekly review. (Oh, weekly review. A topic needs another post to discuss.)
I really hope I could settle down my GTD tools and work on my GTD implementations.
WIDGETIZE