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by Gaz

Normal Service

11:43 am in Ramblings by Gaz

Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to azazil.net! For some reason search engines send a lot of traffic to this little offhand post I once made. If you’re looking for my travelogue across America, a better place to start is right here, failing that please take a look at my about page before you leave.

We will be flying back to San Diego on 31st January to finish the western 300 miles of Route 66, whereupon I’ll resume posting photographs and maps of our adventures.

by Gaz

Pocket Diary Moleskine Hack

11:40 am in Personal Growth by Gaz

Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to azazil.net! This article is more than a year old now, but I often write about Dave Allen’s Getting Things Done and Moleskine Hacks; please take a look at my about page for links to some of the most popular articles here, or else go direct to several of our newer posts you might also find interesting:
Getting Things Done Digitally.
Moleskine Planner Time Tracker Hack.
Receipt Management with a Moleskine Pocket
Moleskine Pen Loop Hack
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Jumping on the GTD Bandwagon, I’m posting the details of the paper based two-thirds of my GTD system. Inspired by the hyalineskies GTD system, itself based on the pigpog PDA. It’s implemented with a Moleskine Pocket Diary, along with a few extra bits and pieces…

I use a number of markers to keep track of “interesting” pages:

Pen= Inbox
Bookdart= @Context Pages
Paperclip= Project Pages
Ribbon= Today

The Moleskine itself, bookdarts and pen all came from Barnes & Noble. The pen is particularly interesting as it comes from a set of flat bookmark pens sold in a cd jewel case as a set of 7 for $4.95. Only a few millimetres thick, I can clip it directly to the current Inbox page and close the Moleskine around it quite comfortably.

As the ribbon moves through the book to mark the passing of days, I find that some of the pages it has passed through are left unused, so rather than keeping a separate Moleskine for Next Actions and @Context Lists, I make use of those Spare Pages.

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