tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325112302009-09-29T03:46:14.738ZManaging the unmanageableRochezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487766109282455464noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32511230.post-56509721733194170732006-12-18T21:19:00.000Z2006-12-20T20:43:12.288Z

So I have had a few months of day-to-day experience with my NoteBook configuration for GTD. And this is where I run into problems, because of the limitations of the software.To get a list of relevant actions in a particular context, I need to go to SuperFind, and do a query on Incomplete items for the keyword that corresponds to the context. Fair enough, but I can't save this query as a "smart

Rochezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487766109282455464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32511230.post-51727103492482021932006-12-02T22:09:00.000Z2006-12-02T22:31:06.471Z

After a few months I have decided to refactor my notebook. Having a page per project makes it a bit clumsy to do the weekly review. Worse, it still requires too much overhead when I need to create a new project. Personal productivity is all about tricks and making small but often repeated tasks very efficient.So I have now moved all my projects onto a single outlining page, sorted by Due

Rochezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487766109282455464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32511230.post-90297219756559472692006-11-27T21:12:00.000Z2006-12-02T22:09:06.796Z

For every Project, I have set up a "Next Actions" section whose children are the actions that constitute the project.To keep these somewhat in check, I use 2 tricks:Using TypeIt4Me, I make sure that every action for myself starts with "Action:" (I just typed "ac" to put this in this post, and every delegated action with "Waiting for:... " ("wa")Then, I apply an Automatic Sort with the following

Rochezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487766109282455464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32511230.post-14365120020714551812006-11-26T17:02:00.001Z2006-12-02T22:06:47.736Z

Here are the basic setup choices I have made for GTD using Notebook...ContextsFor every Context, you create a Keyword. This makes sense because every page or entry can be tagged with a Keyword. Creating a Keyword is something you can't do in a few clicks, but that doesn't matter.ProjectsI ruled out using a separate file for every Project, but that simply doesn't work for me: Projects get

Rochezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13487766109282455464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32511230.post-1155590032428863432006-08-14T21:05:00.000Z2006-08-14T21:13:52.440Z

In the next few weeks, I will be taking you through the process of setting up GTD using 2 great pieces of software, running on what is obviously the greatest platform: Mac OS X.The heart of the system is CircusPonies NoteBook (www.circusponies.com), arguably the best note-taking and outlining application on te market.I will set up a NoteBook template and a process that allows a highly efficient

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I started this blog to share my experience of implementing David Allen's Getting Things Done.I know, there must be already dozens of websites, blogs, forum entries out there... So why would anyone be interested in mine?Don't know. Let's see...

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