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Michael Randall lays out a paper GTD-based system that should appeal to a lot of folks here.

What Is It?

• A Moleskine hack.
• An extreme Moleskine hack.
• A simplified GTD system (What system? See our GTD Introduction), with relatively little actual organising. May be useful if you fancy Doing GTD Without Doing GTD.
• A complete personal management system for those who’s needs aren’t too complicated.
• A rather over-the-top system for dealing with just the capturing and processing end of GTD.

Why?

I was finding GTD a bit much for various reasons, but didn’t want to stop entirely - I needed to be Doing GTD Without Doing GTD. This is the system I came up with in the end. It’s simpler than GTD, and wouldn’t scale to the sort of level that GTD will, but it works pretty well for me, so it seems reasonable to think it might work well for other people too.

Read on for details of a clever system for turning a Moleskine Reporter into a kind of über-notebook, in which capture, processing, and related work are handled using sticky-note flags and some light templating.

Really good post on a satisfying hybrid of paper and digital. Full of good insight and “what I've learned” observations. Best of many good lines: “The power of Greyskull is the power of the next action.” Word.

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Clever way to use Thunderbird’s excellent (semantic) flags to implement at GTD-inspired email triage system

This is an intriguing idea. Keith converts his important to-dos into scheduled blocks of work.

Giles takes one of the biggest, geekiest leaps you can, moving all of his stuff into a single big-ass plain text file.

David Allen’s suggestions for lists that are handy to keep around.

Keep it brief and send it fast--right from within Quicksilver.

I enjoyed tuqqer’s detailed review of how he’s tweaked GTD to work best for him over the past year.