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Notebook GTD?

Not everyone needs a fully loaded hipster PDA for GTD. I'm wondering whether anyone is practising GTD using a Moleskine Pocket Cahier as their "system." Is it possible to use nothing but a small paper notebook and pen for GTD? How would you lay out your projects, contexts and next actions? I can't see it scaling very well for a very busy practitioner, but it may be enough for say, ahem, a slacker with not much to do.

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Now that I think about...

GOD wrote:
Now that I think about it listing next actions on your to-do list and under projects seems unorthodox. I always understood the "projects" section to really just be a list of projects that you have open.

Ah, I get it now. Projects are like big next-actions made up of increments, and when you've done all the increments you can check it off like on your to-do list.

So, it's up to you. I kind of like the idea of having my "projects" consist of separate pages instead of a list and using those pages for brainstorming. Then you can generate next actions from there.


This could be true depending on how you do your project planning. You have to write down the steps required to complete a project somewhere. If you just have a list of projects, you will likely have a section of a notebook or a file folder for project support material and this will include planning notes. If you don't keep a list of projects as "meta-actions" then you don't keep your planning notes with your support materials but on the project's card. Hope this makes sense.

 
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