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This is the index card accordion filer I just bought to serve as my new hipster PDA and portable, multi-context list organizer.
My previous PDA is on the right. I'm a bit torn. I will really miss the breast pocket convenience of my old PDA. I may use both for the time being.
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Saw Crew 800 working on a thinning project, downing trees to prevent the spread of wildfires in the [name] National Forest!
@AmeriCorps #AmeriCorps #ConservationCorpsNorthCarolina #gettingthingsdone #itwontbeeasy #itwillbeworthit #Crew800
I made the comment that I'm not busy enough to need more than a couple lines per day to keep track of meetings, commitments, and other "hard landscape" items (to use the "Getting Things Done" term) during the week.
Shown here are the Levenger Circa wallet-sized cards. One side is ruled, the other side is graph/grid paper. I made a nano calendar by writing the dates of the week at the top of this first card. I think moved 4 boxes down and drew a line across. At the top of the box created by that line, I put the date and abbreviation for the day. For example "12 - Mon" Move another 4 boxes down, repeat. You should end up with 4 dates on the top card.
For the bottom card, move 5 boxes down for the first date. You can write the date between the discs. Now repeat the previous pattern - 4 boxes down for each date. You should end up with 3 days on the card and another section 5 boxes high for notes. Whether you want to draw another line between the last date and notes is up to you.
Rollabind ruler/pagefinder is in the middle to easily turn immediately to your calendar. Rollabind page afterward for additional notes.
Advantages to this system: just two Circa rings to archive it or put it in your wallet and easily take it with you!
Downsides: it is sideways from the rest of the planner and does not give you much room to write.
I'm going to try this for a while. It shouldn't take long to figure out if it works for me.
Large metal drawer with some of my reference files in plain yellow folders. Labels are written with my Brother P-Touch 1280VP.
PAX Coworkingで実施された仕事に役立つ勉強会、第一弾 GTD Workshopの様子です。講師はPAXメンバーでもある大塚さん。
The GTD (Getting Things Done) workshop, it's the 1st session of workshop for business at the PAX Coworking.
Lecturer is Mr. Otsuka a member of the PAX.
The finished paper covered jotter with pencil groove and paper. The small Bulldog clips also help retain the pencil. The thickness of the jotter is to allow for a pencil slot and to stop the clips from making the base uneven.
There is more on organization tools on my website www.judyofthewoods.net
It doesn't happen very often, but I was finally able to clear through my email inbox after the trip and get it down to zero messages. That's right, it's clear.
Amazing, compartents for my coffee cup, moleskine, ipod headphones and iPod. What you can't see, mouse in the other side pocket and iPod data cable in the second open pocket behind the headphones.
5×3の情報カードへ直接プリントアウト
next action cards for PoIC ver.1.01d
PDF file is available from next-action.net/2008/10/24/nextactioncards-for-poic-ver101d/.
PAX Coworkingで実施された仕事に役立つ勉強会、第一弾 GTD Workshopの様子です。講師はPAXメンバーでもある大塚さん。
The GTD (Getting Things Done) workshop, it's the 1st session of workshop for business at the PAX Coworking.
Lecturer is Mr. Otsuka a member of the PAX.
In OF you can create folders, which I had been using for basic collection (work, personal, school, etc) and keeping individual projects inside of it.
Lately I've been feeling overwhelmed by overdue items and that it just wasn't organized well. Of course The David would say that it's probably because I haven't been doing the weekly review, and he'd be right. But I was curious about how others were using the folder hierarchy to sort their stuff. One person wrote that they had been using it as a place for their vertical planning.
In this screen shot I've started something to that effect. In GTD you should start on the "runway"- the next actions that you can take. Then you assemble a project around that, then an area of focus, then a goal (it goes on from there) that you are trying to achieve.
I started with tasks then created a project around it. But then I took a different approach to folders. I created an Area of Focus folder that contains individual projects and put that inside a Goal folder. You can see that I've got some blank spots in there that I'm trying to figure out still. I'm also labeling them AF and G until I get more items into it and hopefully can distinguish the goals from the areas of focus more easily.
It's been mentally taxing to reverse engineer a folder hierarchy but I think it will be worth it. Since attending the GTD: The Roadmap seminar I've learned the value of vertical planning, but it's always been stored somewhere else. This is exciting to see all in one place.
pluralistic.net/2026/01/16/interrupt-driven/#ping
A juggler, who is juggling email icons. Instant message icons are flying at him from all directions. In the background is a frantic scene from Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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Mark James (modified)
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A cube of business cards (courtesy of Ned Batchelder - www.nedbatchelder.com/text/cardcube.html) with the five GTD stages on each face: Collect, Process, Organize, Review, Do. You can get a summary of GTD at Notes from Getting Things Done.
so this is what two years worth of notecard jottings looks like, when you can't keep up with putting them into the computer. infoglut.
headings are:
* abby (object-oriented database project)
* art (ideas for paintings)
* yr (psychological and spiritual ideas and quotes)
* unsorted (lists of things to do, books to get, words to look up, etc)
* school (undergrad stuff - biochemistry, proteins, etc)
* unused (blank cards)
* half-used (one side used)
* used (both sides used, hence useless, except as filling)
Pocket mods:
www.pocketmod.com/app/index.html
Thanks Darren for that.
And the uses, Thanks Brad for that.
Getting things done - the book.
A trick I like to use to make it look as if I'm reading one thing, when in fact I'm reading something completely different, is to hide one book or magazine inside another.
In this picture, for example, it appears that I'm reading a book about productivity...but I'm not.
Ian Fleming ain't got nuthin' on me!
My mini Tickler File covers a rolling two week period and keeps my upcoming LEGO auctions organised. (I sell LEGO minifigs. Read more about it at my Brick Trader blog.)
A 'real' Tickler File (a rolling month rather than a rolling fortnight) looks more like this.
After much soul searching and asking for help from helpful people on the 43folders google group, I have decided to try for the upteenth time to implement GTD but using a simple paper edition to grasp the whole concept before moving onto more complex tools.
I had 10-15 minutes to kill this morning, so I turned an old print into a nice compact cover for my next-action lists.