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Yeah, But, Yeah

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Yeah, But, Yeah

Capture is one of those famous GTD ideas that is both great, but unexamined, somewhat overbaked and silly - perhaps overbaked and silly are synonymous. I’m being redundant, but that’s my point because I know that when we have important thoughts, we have them again, and while where supposed to have a trusted system outside our mind, we don’t and we never will.

So trust the little fail safe, write down with enough context any thought worth writing down, but trust the fact that you’ll think it again, and don’t write it down if you don’t have the time to, the place to, the system to, or the elements of context that make writing things down productive. And guess what? If you don’t remember again, it wasn’t that important or life enriching.

A very funny thing happened as I typed this. Will Power’s Adventures In Success played two consecutive times on iTunes. Imagine the odds, my mind boggles. In any case, yeah, but, yeah.

Provide context for better ubiquitous capture By: Merlin Mann (13 replies) December 17, 2007 - 7:01am
 
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