The thin red line: my current favourite notebook hack
A bit obvious, maybe, but it’s the cheapest GTD hack I’ve tried in a long time, and it’s a good one!
Whitepaper v3: Taking advantage of Exchange
A new job and a new office is a good opportunity to take stock of how things are working — and to revise my setup where it’s not working so well.
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Without going on and on about it, my apologies for the extended delay in posting here — the usual excuses apply but I recognise it’s been quite some time!
Gearing up for working across lots of projects, all at once
My stress levels increase as immediate information about the status of everything I’m working on vanishes. I don’t need to have details available, but I do need to know exactly where things stand.
Here’s the first of several posts about my new task: working across a lot of projects, all at once…
Finding balance through a posting schedule
I’ve recently taken on a lot more responsibility at work, across two teams and working on some pretty important social issues. As a result, I’m working longer hours (10-hour days are becoming the norm) than I ever have before. Here’s my plan to keep posting through all of this…
Vertical integration: advice, please!
I’m after some advice. Over to you, wise and widespread readers: what tips would you give to someone wanting to get the ‘upper levels’ of GTD working smoothly?
Filofax for GTD: your very own tickler file
In theory, the tickler file is a great tool — simply file things away in the folder for the correct date, and then don’t think about it again until the day rolls around.
In practice, though, I’ve often found it’s more trouble than it’s worth. But the idea itself remains an excellent one. Wouldn’t it be great if you could carry a tickler file with you all the time? Well, now you can…
Using a Filofax for GTD: setting up the pages for tasks and calendars
In part two of my series on using a Filofax for a GTD-style personal productivity system, I go into detail about how I’ve used Filofax’s standard designs in my own system. (Includes two example pages!)