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Carry Planner All the Time??
srfarr | Apr 12 2007
One of the tenets I thought David Allen put forward was to carry what ever you used as your planner (notebook or PDA) at all times. I can see the value of capturing something that comes to me at dinner, but using either of these mechanisms seems a bit much. What sort of balance do you strike? 19 Comments
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..I get that carrying an...Submitted by bengoshisan on April 17, 2007 - 10:01am.
srfarr;8930 wrote:
..I get that carrying an index card or something like that helps in capturing the new material (I can also see I didn't write the question very well, sorry), but keeping the context lists with you to make effective time of sitting in traffic or riding the train, etc. is what I'm struggling with. My current practice is a Moleskine, which I use both as general capture tool (front) and an NA (context) list storage (from the back backwards). Somewhere among the Moleskine hacks at 43folders I got the idea to use small index stickers for each context list: I can open up the Moleskine at the right context in a flash. (The stickers I marked with little icons that show the context, eg. a little house for @home.) My problem remains that my calendar is online... » POSTED IN:
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