There’s a great free online GTD service called simpleGTD that has a handy “printable lists” page available. I’ve written a shell script on my Linux machine to pull down that “printable” page, split up the contexts, and print each context list onto a separate 3x5 index card.

Then I use my horrible handwriting through the day to check off items and add new things, and each morning during my daily review I update the lists online and use my script to print out new cards.

I’m compromising slightly - going to type & print the lists on A5 paper, as I happen to have a stack that I bought ages ago thinking it might be useful :o)

I have also considered switching to lo-tech gtd. I currently use a ipaq hp2210 with Pocket informant as my primary gtd tool. Unfortunately it crashes half the time; I worry about losing backups-meltdown etc.

I sometimes see some hipster pda’s on web pages that are more hi-tech than my pda! Am I missing something here? I thought the hpda was a effective low -tech tool - who cares whether anyone else can read your writing or understands your sytem? If it works……….

Your lists of actions are just lists, so they don’t need any fancy tools or software to manage them. I keep my action lists in a Word document, which I update each time I process my inbox and planner.

This gives me a legible list, printed from Word, but keeps me free from needing some machine to manage it during the day.