Moleskine GTD

Somehow, a pocket ruled Moleskine made its way to my room. I don't know how, I don't know why, but it did.
Anyways, I decided to take a shot at creating my own complete Moleskine GTD system based on the hyalineskies GTD System,  the Circle, GIL's Student Planner Hack and a little bit of my own creativity..

I don't want to re-iterate everything I already wrote on my flickr, click on the pictures to see the notes etc.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The front cover of my 'hacked' Moleskine GTD system."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="post-it flags on the inside cover to mark pages etc. Project flag in case I have a project that I want to quickly find. I rarely have any big projects, which is why I didn't put this on the outside of the notebook/"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Number the odd pages (for quick reference when an item is delegated to a different section)."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The main tabs: ToDo Soon Maybe/Later Notes"][/caption]



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="How I use the tabs: ToDo (can be used for simple items or as an inbox ((you can change it to inbox if you want.)) As an inbox, you want it to have the most pages since this is where you put everything, before it gets delegated to the other sections. Since this section will have the most items , I made mine about 95 pages long) Soon (used for things that aren't immediate ((scheduling appointments etc. and things happening in the near future)). Since I don't have many things that would fit this category, it's only about 30 pages long). Maybe/Later (things I'm putting off, or that don't require immediate attention. Only about 30 pages long.) Notes (where I just put down random notes, things that don't necessarily need to go in the ToDo or Inbox section ((book lists, movie lists, email lists, twitter drafts, doodling, you name it!))"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="This system is pretty self explanatory. I kind of tweaked it, you can find the original idea here font.is/?p=790 Very easy system to take care of little items, to planning bigger projects."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Some of the things I added: Contexts (from David Allen's GTD): Create a border/column about 1.5 cm in from the side of the page (you can use a thin sharpie so that it bleeds through, and you only have to do it every other page) where you put Contexts (@mac, @car, @cell, @work etc). You can add as may as you want per action/project, just try to keep it broad and simple, so you can easily scan through your items to see what you have to do! Due Dates are pretty self explanatory."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="I like to keep a secret $20, some index cards and a couple spare metro tickets, nice to have in case of emergency."][/caption]

That's all! Happy productivity!!

Sircram

p.s. leave comments on how this worked out for you!!

Win Free Stuff (and help me win free stuff)

Love/Hate relationship with my Moleskine, but only love with my Hero 329 :o)

Recently, I became a bit of a Moleskine addict, and as I've been looking through various sites ('Skine Art), and somehow, I fell on some interesting pen/notebook sites, some that you should check out: The Pen Addict, Future Nostalgic, Potentially Percipicacious, Good Pens, An Inkophile's Blog, and Notebook Stories to name a few. Anyways, since lately I've been having issues with bleed through and feathering with my fountain pen, in my moleskine, I posted a tweet on my account (@ecram), asking if anyone knew of a great, affordable, moleskine friendly fountain pen. Of course, @futurenostalgic, always ready to help, responded with a link to his glowing review of the Hero 329. The Hero 329 is a Chinese-made fountain pen, with an extra Fine hooded nib, and an aerometric filling method. But wait, it gets even better, the pen is available at HisNibs, for only $15!!! I almost immediately purchased it. Though I should have listened to @futurenostalgic, and purchased his recommended Aurora Black ink, instead I went with convenience, over quality, and bought the only ink my local stationery store carries, Private Reserve Velvet Black.

This pen/ink combination is OK, but there's still a lot of bleed/show through. Aside from that, when I'm not writing in my Moleskine (or when I come across pages that are actually good quality paper. More on that later.), I use my Hero 329, it's a great pen. Puts down a nice, smooth, wet line, and fares better than some of the pens I have that cost three times that!

Anyways, onto my grippes with Moleskine, more specifically Moleskine paper, even more specifically; Moleskine's shitty paper.

Since I got my Moleskine, one of the many things I enjoyed about it, was its smooth, creamy, ivory-colored FOUNTAIN PEN FRIENDLY paper. But... I guess the wonderful... smooth... creamy... ivory-colored... FOUNTAIN PEN FRIENDLY paper, was there by mistake, since as I continued writing in my trusty notebook, the paper quickly quickly degraded, and my words started to feather, and bleed through. I mean, it's SO bad, that even my Pilot G2 (THE G2!!) bleeds through, A LOT, when it used to not (bleed through).

So, if any of you pen/notebook fanatics/enthusiasts/addicts, could please give me some advice on an inexpensive, pocket sized notebook, with FP friendly paper, that's available in US (locally in San Diego, California, would be even better!), it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric (@ecram)

What's in my backpack

[caption id="attachment_57" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="What I always have with me."][/caption]

I decided to do a "What's in your bag" photo... and well it's pretty self-explanatory. Click HERE to see it on flickr with all of its notes glory. These things are usually with me in my discreet bright orange Jansport bag.