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Ok, Ⅰ need to admit right at the start of this post: Ⅰ have not been too disciplined and have neglected my weekly review too often. Ⅰ just finished my WR at home today – after missing it by about 10 days. Working at a „foreign“ lab has not helped me get into establishing a gtd place the new office as Ⅰ was just hopping from free desk to free computer. My iBook was at home – duh. GTD where are you?

Which has made me realize one important thing: Ⅰ cannot rely on using a computer as my main GTD system. It only works when Ⅰ am using my Ibook on a daily basis – everything else makes things complicated and is anti-productive. GTD really lives on those easy-to-adhere-to-Rules and accessibility. So even an online version of a gtd system is nice, but not really the best thing for my day2day basis.

What are the alternatives?

1. Ⅰ can do my lists and everything that needs to be written down on paper. This would mean that my LabWork and all related projects will be in my lab notebooks, my private stuff in my private notebooks – is this feasible? There never is a common place for anything. Somehow having my @context lists even more complete as gtd systems. So instead of one GTD system Ⅰ now have a @home-system as well as an @lab system.
2. One global system with one notebook, which needs to be large enough to fit everything in and small enough to be carried around.
3. Or one global notebook with all the lists, projects etc. PLUS a collection of other notebooks for on the run. Still not the perfect solution.

Maybe Ⅰ should still have all my projects on my ibook, and just generate the @context lists as well as the @nextActions from it – and everything else will be in carry-around-notebooks, lab-notebooks. Then during my weekly reviews Ⅰ will update the Computer lists and create new @carry_around_context lists. Sounds like more work but might actually be useful.

Ⅰ am sure Ⅰ missed an important point in Dave Allen’s book – time to re-read it? There really should be specialized versions for different working requirements as well as „profiles“

Giles Turnbull talks about Tiger’s Spotlight and how it drastically changes the way people work with files.

when Ⅰ heard Brian talking to another journalist: „The first thing you start doing is cease using hierarchy as a means of storing stuff. Ⅰ know this, because I’ve been using this for a few months and Ⅰ don’t bother to file things anymore. Ⅰ don’t give a rat’s ass where my files are, because Spotlight finds everything for me.“ That’s the crucial, boiled-to-the-bone reality of something like Spotlight. If it really is capable of finding what you need, why bother keeping your stuff in any kind of order?

Ⅰ have had a similar experience when Ⅰ switched to DevonThink for File archival, especially for saving all those snippets and publications Ⅰ come across in daily work and surfing. If Spotlight can keep my other files in order – Ⅰ want Tiger ASAP. Now and if that is the end to the crappy Finder, so be it.

Just wondering: what will DevonThink be like after version 2.0 – when they switch to a file based database – as well as interact with Spotlight? Ⅰ believe this will be even better than just Tiger – but Ⅰ want it now as well

Kevin asks the dreaded question to anyone fanatical enough about anything: Why?. One answer that came up in the google groups thread by David Meadows:

It works … the paradigm up to this point had been time management, which isn’t possible … Ⅰ can’t control time. Ⅰ can control tasks, though …

Chapter Excerpts as well as movies from Dave Turner’s book „A Passion for Tango„.

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