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Ok, so, my brain is mush these days. I keep forgetting stuff I need to do so I write things I have to do in a bunch of different places on a billion scraps of paper, but never have the right bit of paper to remind me to do stuff when that thing could be done, and so I forget to do it and freak about it later, resulting in my having yet another thing to be upset about.

Le sigh.

So, I decided to get organised.  I was inspired by a bunch of blogs all talking about this ‘GTD‘ task management thing:

[Getting Things Done] rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate on actually performing those tasks. What distinguishes GTD from other time- or action-management systems is the idea of grouping tasks by the context (defined as a place or set of available resources) in which they are to be performed.

There are lots of ways of GTD-ing, apparently, and I spent many a geeky blog-surfing hour looking at them.  The ideas that impressed me most included using a Moleskine (because I heart Moleskines) and regular old index cards (aka an Hipster PDA) but I ended up making up a system that melds a few of them together. 

I got a cute new pocket Moleskine, hacked [literally] out tabs in the pages, highlighted the tabs and edges and clipped a bunch of index cards to the front with a fat phat Mori Clip and then stuck in some planner pages from D*I*Y Planner.

“Uh. Wait. Why don’t you just use your diary?”, my friend A asked when she saw me with it, knowling full well that I already have one, which just happens to be a Molskine softcover weekly planner notebook.

Because it’s got extra features.  That I put in myself because I knew how I wanted to organise myself.  So nyah.

“I think you do more organising that actual doing,” M said to me when he saw it.

Yeah, he’s probably right.