My own GTD instantiation

If the title of this post sounds cryptic to you, it really means you need to discover Getting Things Done from David Allen. This famous book is of real help for anyone who has difficulties to stay organised in this overwhelming world.
After (or while) reading it, you probably would like to practice (elements of) the methodology. There are at least two ways to do so: the analog and the digital ones.

Regarding the digital, I envisioned two possibilities: TiddlyWiki and Mail.

There are different instances of TiddlyWiki that are able to run your GTD. Because my TiddlyWiki is operated thanks to Simon Baird's release (MPTW), I gave it a try. It is a real good job, really.

There is as well a way to customise your GMail account so as to redesign it in GTD conformant manner (go to GTD inbox). Again, nice shot.

But the fact is I'm reluctant to go digital to manage my GTD.

So I went to the analog path.

Obviously, I first stopped at David Allen's site and explore its store. Nothing for me there.

So I built my material by myself.

And here it is: a simple folder with sub-folders (please note the FF sticker!)

The main folder contains some few sheets (a year calendar, a global Actions and a global WaitingFor)

Then come the sub-folders. Each is made with a dedicated sheet (at the top, the project name, a year calendar reminder, an ActionList, a WaitingFor and a "phonebook" list). Plus note sheets where I write important stuff from the various meetings for this project.

The fact is I like writing (with a pen I mean). That's where my digital life goes back to the real world.

I would have liked to post my template (as an OpenOffice document) but Blogger does not seem to allow upload/download of non images/videos contents... leave a message/comment in case you're interested in)

What a TiddlyWiki is? (my personnal view on that...)

Let me point you to the concept of TiddlyWiki (if you don't know it yet).

• if you are a MS OneNote user, this is a perfect (and better) replacement (free and OpenSource)
• it is a sort of personnal blog (it's off-line, but can be shared online)
• it's a single HTML file that has edition capabilities within your preferred browser (FireFox 2.0+ of course!) without any extension to be installed
• you write "blog entries" (aka Tiddler). They are automatially linked together if you use a special case scheme (called CAMEL-case, JustLikeThis)
• you can define to which categorieS your entry belongs to (called Tags)
• you can view what Tiddlers are tagged for a particular Tag
• you can view which Tiddler points to a Tiddler
• you can add behaviour to your TiddlyWiki by adding special Tiddler (called Plugins); you can retrieve them online on the Web

To start with, go to TiddlyWiki and read through. Personnaly, I'm using an adapted TiddlyWiki (compatible with the original) called MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki. And added many plugins. Then, you'll be able to go to :

• TiddlyDoc
• TiddlySpot (online and free hosting: connected and disconnected mode available!)
• del.icio.us (big list of plugins)