Patrick Rhone: Excellent productivity whitepaper

patrickrhone.com: Org-Fu Überpost - Productivity Whitepaper

I’m a little late to the party on this one, but if you also hadn’t spent much time with it yet, I suggest you check out Patrick Rhone’s whitepaper on his version of a GTD system.

Some high points:

• paper-based capture and task tracking via a Moleskine notebook
• sexy “dash/plus” notation system for identifying item status (scroll way down for an image showing all the characters he uses)
• Backpack for tracking projects and tasks
• OmniOutliner Pro for “vertical mapping” of higher-level outcomes (20,000-foot view and up)
• inbox kept at zero in Mail.app
• further details on physical note-taking using notebooks

Great and thorough post – and, for what it’s worth, this is exactly the kind of thing I’m hoping people will post to the new “Projects” forum on the 43f board – in my experience, people really enjoy hearing about implementation systems and love discussing how they can be improved and tweaked.

Good work, Patrick.