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ozhuner | May 26 2006
Success! I am now happily printing my lists onto index cards. Now, my hipster experiment can begin. I'm happily married to kGTD, which is not to say that we don't have our little spats. While kGTD is my homebase for action planning, I've been taking my task lists on the road using a Windows mobile Missing Sync, which works well. I'm using uncoated, blank, white 4"x6" cards and a HP Photosmart 320 photo printer. Works great. Even better with the ink set to low volume. This trip started out trying to use 3x5 cards, but I couldn't get them to work with the printers I have. But, its fine using 4x6 cards because they fit in the back pocket of my 501 jeans and my suit jacket breast pocket easily. And, they give you more surface on which to write. But, I'll have to supersize my moleskine pocket cahier to a 5x8. So, for all you out there who are are getting frustrated trying to print on 3x5, try and big up to 4x6 index cards. 4 Comments
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 I must have misunderstood your...Submitted by wood.tang on May 27, 2006 - 6:04pm.
I must have misunderstood your post, because I didn't realize you were keeping your NA's on index cards too. Again, you and I are in the same boat. The PPC 6700 is a WM5 device, and try as I might, it's not been so helpful for GTD stuff. It has a qwerty slide-out keyboard, but it's still a little clunky for quick capture. So like you, I find myself using the index cards for scribbling and keep the PDA as a very expensive read-only device. I make my laptop with kGTD and iCal the system of record, and sync it with Missing Sync. Maybe I'm rationalizing, but I think it flows better that way, forcing me to go through the whole inboxing process instead of being able to stick stuff directly on a context list when it could have been polished off as I processed it. But then I also question why I need such a big, pricey piece of equipment if I'm not really getting the most out of it. I do love using it for email and the web though. I'm one of those chronic GTD system changer-uppers, so I'm always looking for a reason to swap out a gadget or try some new notebook or index card solution. In fact, the times I've gone completely paper, I loved it, but I always give in to the gadget lust. Anybody have a cure for this? » POSTED IN:
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