GTD, Moleskine, and 3×5 cards
I bought my first Moleskine journals tonight (a small squared notebook and a large ruled notebook).
I intend to use some combination of these and 3×5 cards to implement the “Getting Things Done” system.
One idea I had was to use one 3×5 card for each Next Action and then store them in the accordion folder at the back of my Moleskine (probably the large one). A good preliminary exercise would be to destroy some cards just to start getting the feel for it and to break past any conservatism that would keep me from freely dispensing with the cards. Actually, I can leverage my own desire to preserve my nice things by keeping the card count small so as not to put too much wear and tear on my expensive Moleskine. That could be a good motivating factor for knocking things off my Next Actions pile.
Anyway, here are some of the blog entries that inspired me this evening:
jeff lang said,
November 30, 2004 @ 7:47 am
Evan,
I’m also using the “hipster pda” method to implement GTD. As silly as it seems, I can relate to your concern about being conservative with the cards – which would fly in the face of the whole system. To ween myself off being conservative and truly capture everything bouncing around in my life and my head I’ve taken the many printouts that are no longer needed and sliced them up into notecard size. Having the paper in with my cards is a “good trick” to take my mind off waste and on capturing.