Getting Things Done
5

I’m getting started this weekend. In case anyone was curious, when you merge the contents of my office and my head and pile them up together, throwing away the obvious garbage, the inbox looks like this:

Tomorrow my job is to eliminate that pile.
Happy Easter, everyone.
Good luck Steve. The first step is the hardest. It’s a good system and it really helps with my procrastination/ADD issues
Oh BTW if you havent already check out the 43folders blog as well as Merlin’s excellent podcast.
http://www.43folders.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/43Folders
Comment by Lee Murdock — April 16, 2006 @ 10:06 am
And I thought my desk was bad! I do not envy your impending doom.
Comment by Paul Puri — April 16, 2006 @ 1:00 pm
Hey Lee,
Yeah, I’ve been reading 43Folders. Paul Fischer clued me in to Merlin’s podcast at PodcasterCon.
Half of inbox clear so far, although stopping for lunch also meant stopping to change the A/C filter, clean and refill the hot tub, make bread for tonight, watch some Simpsons and write this comment. I really should have taken a couple days off instead of trying to do it on the weekend. Oh well.
Comment by SFEley — April 16, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
Paul –
My desk hasn’t always looked like that. Until now it’s looked a lot worse.
Comment by SFEley — April 16, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
This might help you:
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/GTDTiddlyWiki_Plus
If you haven’t seen it already, that is.
Since it’s a single file, it runs locally. Of course, you could throw it on a server and access it from various locations, or you could use a nifty free synch tool like FolderShare (Windows Only, but free) to keep updated copies on different computers.
I read GTD, and like some of it… enough that a portable wiki-like solution might just make it useable!
Comment by Matthew Wayne Selznick — April 20, 2006 @ 12:10 am