Hi there! Well, I guess I fit that double category, being a scientist and a GTDer. The nature of the former puts particular stresses on the latter, that I don't often see around the web, mainly because of the gazillion inbox hogs: sources of data (I happen to be one of those inter-disciplinary guys dipping in a relatively wide variety of specialities), of intellectual input (meetings, conferences, scientific literature, younameit), of nagging emails, mailing lists (mainly in the form of lists of publications, I'd say 2-300 a week), of student management, and so on. As I try to have a life outside of work, I have come to be involved in another set of activities that strangely seem to require similar sets of tricks as those for research, as well as having a liking for IT geekyness (how else would I have hear of GTD?!). The baskets: 1- A Moleskine notebook divided in (i) an Inbox, where ToDos are written down in the format what @context >project #startdate — enddate :commentary; (ii) Notes, where I take, well, notes, and use as an on-the road brain-dump. The Moleskine lives with a.... oh yes... a Space-Pen! 2- On my Mac, Metadata, or tags if you prefer, with apps like Yep for the pdfs of scientific papers, and Quicksilver/Punakea/DefaultFolderX for everything else simply because nested folders are too one-dimensional. DEVONthink Pro for the processing (DT's AI is my second brain). MailTags and Mail Act-on rules for processing emails (same set of tags as the rest). The Tags I use include, but are not restricted to, GTD Contexts and Projects, plus one called "Current" for which I have a Smart-Folder in the Dock for all the stuff that requires my attention during-this-week. I'm sticking to the @ prefix, not &, for consistency between tagging apps. 3- Kinkless, which receives input from the Moleskine (input via Quicksilver SendToKinkless advanced script), Mail (input via a MailToKGTD script), etc. My contexts: Lab (wet lab, data generation), Mac (everythink that gets done on the laptop including emails), Office (basically at non-lab), Home, Errands, Someday, and a crucial one, Thinking (this is where the digested brain-dump gets slowly distilled into Study Designs and Work Plans, and then gets moved on to the Lab context). 4 Output. this is 99% in the form of writing. For complex writing I start in Scrivener (allows me to have pdfs, graphs of the data I generated, etc.), with the help of DEVONthink Pro and Bookends for referencing. When I no longer require having pdfs and figures for writing and when I'm fairly happy with the structure of the paper I export the manuscript to Mellel. For collaboration writing, I anyway use a 'dirty copy' that I hand out, because people always tend to screw up my formatting, auto titles, reference fields, etc. Always. So to avoid beating people over the head with their own bloody limbs, I always keep the 'master document' out of reach of their grubby little fingers.

Writing it out feels like it makes me loose more time than I gain, but in the long run I have become so much more relaxed about the day-today grind and pressure for getting as many things done as I can... Minimal levels of stress is a good enough outcome for me, and the wife likes me more for it ;-) Does GTD reduce divorce rates and cardiovascular complications?!