Today is GO day! From this evening I will be Organised! Honest!
I’ve bought everything I need for my new system. All I need is an actual system! Oh, and a Sharpie pen (forgot to get that!).
I bought a new notebook (not a moleskine – I want to see if I can make this work before making that kind of investment in a notebook), page markers, a nice new pen, a new bookcase to allow me some more room for my books and files, cleaned out my Outlook Inbox…
So, a system? I’ve been looking at lots of GTD (Getting Things Done) stuff and most of the notebook systems seem quite complicated, or is it just me? I need a system that will:
- Help me to write down important stuff at meetings and create a ‘to do list’ that will get done
- Give me some space to write down thoughts for sermons, training sessions and blog posts
- Manage my projects
So, is that how it works? I just split my notebook into those three/four sections? It needs to to work alongside my digital system so I can transfer stuff to and from my outlook and from there to my phone & PDA (that already sounds like too many places to have information!) You see my dilemma!!! Any advice would be most welcome!
Rich Olyott put me onto your blog post about getting organized. I’ve found that if you are wanting to get organized using Outlook and a PDA you can’t get much better than Sally McGhee’s advice in Take Back Your Life using Outlook — search Amazon UK for that title.
McGhee uses David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methods but applies them simply and clearly to a digital medium, advising users to sync their Outlook with a PDA so that they can take their system with them.
I cannot recommend her book or method highly enough. Last night I met up with a friend to whom I’d recommended her book a few months back and she has already got her system up and running and it’s working perfectly for her.
I’ll be blogging about the system I use soon, so look out for it. 🙂
Hope that helps.
Gareth
Thanks Gareth. I’ll have a look for the book! And welcome! I hope you hang around.
Stewart