Write it down...
As always there are million thoughts running
through my head; finishing the small things in the flat, changing the business
over, client work starting to warm back up (6 projects on the go), sofa colours
to choose, xmas/birthday/baby presents I haven't bought for people, photos I
haven't labelled, tagged and uploaded, personal admin I should be doing, fitness
I should be attempting etc. Of course, each of these things has a dependancy
and in some cases, multiple dependencies, so it all starts to add up and some
things forgotten in the short term and then things start to become
inefficient.
So, as a method of either
procrastination or organisation, I have decided to research and implement a
Getting Things Done strategy. I used to use Post-it notes, but it's so hard to
organise, rearrange, show completion, take with you, etc that they are really
only a back-up for immediacy. I also use 'To Do's in iCal, but it's hard to
show granular relationships and dependencies and there really isn't much room
(though it does have categories, priority, due date and status, which is good).
I briefly used Stickies in Mac OS X Dashboard, but they are hopeless (limited
size, poor editing, poor selection and no printing etc) and so I have moved to
starting a Omni Outliner Pro document to hold everything. I am a huge fan of
OOP for my work notes/files/links etc and now I want to organise my life with
it. I have started rather simply by organising things in one of 4 main
categories; Home, Company, Social & Other. Within each section is a 'Buy'
list and a 'Do' list. At the moment they are just nested with some formatting
to make the key sections stand out, but I will be doing some further GTD
research and properly identifying my requirements and choosing the right tools
and approach.
I want to be a GTD Power
User!!
I'll let you know how I
go...
Posted: Wed - January 4, 2006 at 11:37 PM