Been investing a fair bit of time getting GTD up and running on a Moleskine. GTD isn't the most intuitive system but as I start to work with it I find it works a treat.
Anyone else out there managing their lives an a low-tech analogue format? I'd love to hear about your systems.
As a touch typist (as are you) I can rip through pages of text in no time -- impressive, huh? -- but I prefer sketching out in long hand, first. I find my writing is sharper and smoother when I work this way. When I key the text into my computer I am in fact doing an edit.
ReplyDeleteThe graphic nature of a word sketch, or scribble, lends itself to greater creativity, for me.
I carry around either a smaller format notebook (5 x 8) or a larger 8.5 x 11 size version. Generally, it depends which one I feel like recording my brilliance into that particular day.
There are times I hammer straight into the machine -- most blog postings and notes requiring little creativity -- but the notebooks are it!
Paper books are an ode to the creative process -- computers are not as there is no "history" in the stream.
Forgot: I "GTD" in the notebooks I mentioned... plus my noggin.
ReplyDeleteI am a big note-taker.