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Notebook GTD?

Not everyone needs a fully loaded hipster PDA for GTD. I'm wondering whether anyone is practising GTD using a Moleskine Pocket Cahier as their "system." Is it possible to use nothing but a small paper notebook and pen for GTD? How would you lay out your projects, contexts and next actions? I can't see it scaling very well for a very busy practitioner, but it may be enough for say, ahem, a slacker with not much to do.

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I asked the exact same...

I asked the exact same question to Emory about possible redundancy regarding lists of items under each project and having the same stuff listed as Next Actions. His idea works for me:

Have a list of Projects with the necessary steps beneath each Project, yet without a context assigned to them. Then, when you are ready to actually get to work on a project, you "promote" one of the tasks beneath the project to your NA list and assign it a context then.

 
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