Getting Things Done on paper

The world is conspiring to put me in a paper-based Getting Things Done (GTD) system.

1. My PDA broke nearly a month ago and I haven't missed it.
2. I grabbed a 5x7 notebook last week after my mother died to keep track of things and it's been a great method.
3. Rick and I took a needed day off to visit a college where I've applied for a job and I coveted the 5x7 week-at-a-glance calendar that was just like the one I used in college, only with this college's logo on the cover.

For my context lists, I'm taking a look at these two systems, Doug Giuliana's version and the Pierced Hipster PDA.

I bought, and was setting up, the Avery Extended Edge Document Sleeves to use as project support files. I've had project support files in a rolling file cart for about three years and they have never worked the way they are intended. They creep into reference files. Then they are too overwhelming to deal with during my Weekly Review, so I just skip that step. I'm putting the sleeves in a hot file holder near my desk. I'm hoping as Martin Ternouth and Merlin Mann suggest, that I will keep them de-cluttered because they won't hold all that much.

A somewhat un-related productivity tool: I have been using the "Mark All Read" link at the top of my Bloglines account in the past two weeks. I'm spending very little time on my computer, not nearly enough to keep up with all my feeds. So I read the ones I don't want to miss (the ones where I care about the author rather than the information) and mark the rest as read so they don't hang over me as a huge task.     #

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