Getting Things Done Moleskine Style

I love office supplies and productivity blogs. This dual passion was certain to lead to only one place… David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). Given the aforementioned love of office supplies there was only one logical way I could put the GTD system into action… Moleskine.

For those not familiar the Moleskine is a legendary brand of notebook. Well really it is the reconstituted legendary brand of notebook but we don’t have to get into that. Suffice to say if you are in the market for a pocket sized notebook you could do a lot worse than the Moleskin.

Getting Things Done is a great time management system created by David Allen. The key part of the system for me is getting all of the little reminders in your head out of your head so you can actually think. Basically when you think of something to do you have two choices:

• If the task takes less than 2 minutes do it.
• If the task takes more than 2 minutes put it in a trusted system and come back to it later. 

Once it is in your trusted system you can decide to do it, defer it, delegate it or disregard it. My trusted system includes my Outlook calendar (which follows me around on my Windows Mobile smartphone), and my Moleskine. I categorize tasks into Work, Home, Hobby, Errands, Networking as well as separate sections to track the projects I am working and a section for brainstorming.

If this sounds interesting to you there are a lot of people from which you may learn.