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'Super Book'?

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum and here's my first question:

Some time and self management books or seminars here in Germany promote the use of a (hard-bound) book into which everything should go, in chronological order.
The term for this can roughly (!) be translated as "super book" ("Superbuch", in German).

First, could some native English speaker give me the correct English term for such a book, please? That would make googling so much easier.

Secondly, any idea how the use of such a book could possibly map to GTD? Other than a hard-bound inbox, I can't see this fit into the GTD system, although I can see it as potentially useful (no more loose notes, everything in one place, etc.).

Thanks in advance,
Alex

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Only an English name for...

alxwz;8616 wrote:

Only an English name for this is still to be found.

How about notebook?

Or all-in-one notebook?

Or universal capture device?

Or everything book?

By the way, this really does sound like a mixture of the Pig-pog and GSD methods (mentioned in a post above). The one bit of advice that my be of interest has to do with project planning. If you have a project that requires planning, enter it at the top of a new page and save the page for project planning.

I've used notebooks in the past and my one complaint has been the lack of discrete units of information--the tendency of one page to spill over into another. It might be a good practice to think in terms of one-page units.

 
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