This is all so familiar and frightening.

I am a GTD neophyte of the last, say, 4 months. The biggest problem (so far) is not doing the Weekly Review, properly carving out time (though I try to mimic it on the train ride to and from work).

I have been trying to figure out a split home vs. work system. I’m Windows in both worlds.

The current “system” is:

Outlook 2003 with the NetCentrics GTD Outlook add-in. I like the add-in very much.

Another key Outlook item is the free Lookout indexing add-in. It will index files (including PDF’s) on a disk, plus Outlook mail, contacts, task, etc. It’s blazingly fast and works well.

Google Desktop as an alternative means of searching.

Synching work Outlook to Palm T3 with DataViz BeyondContacts (deals with multiple categories, which Palm does not).

Haven’t devoted the attractive distraction time to figuring if I can sync to the Home Outlook without trashing something on the Palm or Work Outlook.

Key item: a cheap version of the Levenger Shirt Pocket Briefcase (http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/PRODIDPG.ASP?Params=Level=2-3|PageID=2398|Category=11-76|special=search|ID=SearchClicked|i=9) with 3x5 index cards for the spontaneous ideas and items.

FireFox; Slogger extension to allow Google Desktop Search to see FireFox page cache; del.icio.us for social bookmarking

I am trying to segregate the non-work email from work, so I’ve now got a home gmail account, which which I now have labels in for things like @Waiting For, @Work, etc.

I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out if I should use Thunderbird on my home PC to get mail from my gmail account (is that a procrastination stunt or what?).

I have decide that I will stick with Outlook and gmail.

The Gmail vs. work email seems to put a tear in the system. I’ll see if it works or not.

BTW, I have “The Now Habit” on order to assess the procrastination issue.