When I wrote my last Scribbles post, I’d just settled on using the Mini Guildford Filofax. I ended that post with:
It’s quite possible I’ll be back to the Moleskine within a day or two, or that I’ll try to stretch my jeans pocket to cram in my Pocket Filofax. I have a worrying amount of fun trying them, though, and that’s the important thing.
I was writing that entry in the Filofax at the time, and by time I’d written it, I was feeling cramped on such small paper. It doesn’t help that the Mini paper has slightly wider lines than the larger Pocket paper. By the time I was typing that post up, I’d pretty much decided that the Mini was too small. I tried my old Pocket Lyndhurst again. It was good, with a lot more space for my notes, but a bit of a stretch on the pocket. Although they call that size “Pocket”, it’s only really for quite big pockets.
Continue reading about Yet Another Filofax Again - Pocket Guildford
I used to take the proverbial out of my husband for the way he’d constantly be fiddling around with his ’system’. He’d scribble his thoughts and ideas into notebooks, various sizes of filofax, various digital devices, but nothing really sticks and he’s always changing his mind. It seemed quite hilarious and very odd to me, until a week or so ago. As 2007 prepares for the final curtain and 2008 waits in the wings, I also find myself in need of a comfortable and reliable way of recording my food diaries and other bits and bobs.
Continue reading about Alright Michael, I get it. Now help me.
I recently switched back to using my Pocket Lyndhurst Filofax. Notebooks were going ok, but for the question of where my ‘GTD-style’ lists went. I tried putting them on the computer, but I never got around to even putting them there in the first place. I came up with a couple of different ideas for mixing them in with my usual daily notes, or putting them in the back of the same notebook, but neither felt right. It would either take too long to find a list when I needed to quickly check something, or it would take too long to copy the lists over every time I started a new book.
Latest Update: Added a post from Working On Me on how to restart when you’ve stopped journaling.
Thinking of starting a journal? It’s a popular activity now, particularly among women, to help make sense of life by keeping a written record of thoughts, hopes and dreams. Here are a few tips and links:
Benefits of Journalling
- The main benefit of keeping a journal is the same as
GTD ’s - it’s getting stuff out of your head and onto paper. - When keeping a journal you are your own audience, so your writing can be as wild and free as you wish. You don’t even have to write. You can draw, or collage… you call the shots.
- It’s a record of your life and your thoughts.
- You decide who gets to see it.
- You can swear as much as you like.
Latest Update: Linked up a couple more systems under Mixing with Other Ideas. If you like the PigPogPDA idea, it’s well worth visiting some of these sites to see what other people have built with some similar ideas.
See Also
- nowMap - my latest simple system - a quick overview of what you’re doing now, on a single sheet.
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Introduction
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.
Continue reading about PigPogPDA - A Moleskine Hacked into a Complete System
