Despite all my ramblings about technology, software app’s and blogs I simply cannot ever see myself going completely paperless. The majority of my note taking is still all done off line and I still write down URLs as well as bookmarking them in my browser.
Anyway, at the moment I’m burrowing my way through a ton of GTD resources online. GTD is an action management method, and the title of a book by David Allen. Its also a relatively new thing for me.
Wikipedia sums it up well here, “GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them somewhere. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate on actually performing those tasks.”
Before I go off on another axis I mention this because I stumbled across an excellent website in amongst all those GTD links promoting (maybe unusually in this day of Ajax obsessed Web 2.0 start ups) paper and productivity. DIY Planner is a kind of GTD methodology but promotes the use of “paper as a medium for planning, productivity, creative expression, and exploring ideas.” (quoting their website).
Great stuff.
There’s a whole host of like thinkers exchanging ideas, resources, documents and tools on the site and a bunch of free templates covering everything from creating an effective time management strategy to jump-starting one’s creativity.
Related Reading
Cutting Through The Clutter To Get Things Done (CNN.com)
Getting Things Done Outlook Add-in (Netcentrics.com)
A Beginners Guide to Making a DIY Planner (DIYPlanner.com)
Jello Dashboard (Jello.WordPress)
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