laboratory
can be more efficient
than all digital or
all paper.
Hybrid GTD System
This is an on-going experiment to improve my offline/online GTD management system.
Going Hybrid: GTD Digital + Paper
[Updated] Lately I’ve gotten fed up with the speed of my iPhone 3G since the operating system upgrade. I’ve had enough. Goodbye to 10 second struggles to write “buy orange juice”. I’m going back to paper. Well… kind of. I’ve been developing a paper-based GTD system for my day-to-day activities, the rest being managed by Evernote, gMail, and Google Calendar. I’ll post more about the results as the months go on, but the contents are two small notepads (one for an inbox, the other for contexts), a few index cards (one group for active projects, another for ticklers), business cards, and a couple of paper clips, all wrapped in a pad protecter from Kokuyo that I picked up in Japan a while back. Even has it’s own elastic band and bookmarks!
Please note that this isn’t intended to be an all-inclusive GTD planner. With the number of projects I have and need to reference many digital items, I’ll never be able to go full-paper. Nor do I want to (I’ve tried this, but it was too much work) as what I’m striving for is simply to get things done faster. So far this is working out – no more waiting while the iPhone decides if it will let me open an app or not!
[...] tool; I use it to manage everything other than my Next Actions lists. I’ve gone back to an analog setup for the daily stuff, at least for [...]
[...] For the most part, my notepad setup is what remained after I abandoned my paper/digital hybrid system of a few months back. Basically everything is the same, minus the note pad with context dividers. See Going Hybrid: GTD Digital + Paper. [...]