Comments on: Adios, Google Calendar – Why I’ve Made the Switch to Pure Analog GTD

By: mark

mark — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:24:47 +0000

Close!

Use Google Calendar as the master calendar – just think: annual reminders like birthdays and you’ll see what I mean.

For the Luddite in all of us, you HAVE to have a PocketMod: http://www.pocketmod.com

I make a new one every week – one piece of paper in my pocket does the job and it’s fully customizable. I tossed a perfectly good PDA (the electronic kind) for this marvel.

Yup.

By: brett

brett — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:31:37 +0000

Thanks for the responses guys, I always appreciate the feedback!

Crawdaddy – I think because I work with technology so much, I’m able to see where it breaks down more easily than others (though, that may just be delusion of mine). While I feel terribly at home in front of a keyboard, I feel equally at home with a stack of notecards, a pad of paper (like this one, which you may have seen when buying yours: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkedmn/358907778/ ) and a pen. I value simplicity and you can’t get much more simple than the same stuff they used 100 years ago.

Cheers!

By: Crawdaddy

Crawdaddy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:21:13 +0000

It IS truly fascinating that a professional “techie” like yourself would make the complete shift to a paper-based GTD system. I am not a professional techie, not even close, but I’ve been crusing along with my Palm-based GTD system since 2001, when I first read Getting Things Done and attended a two-day David Allen seminar. However, your article is pretty powerful and it makes me wonder if I would implement all the components of GTD even more completely if I went the “analog” route. I have ALWAYS been someone who loves a pad of paper and pen with me at all times, as a thinking tool. Perhaps I’ve been limiting myself (and slowing myself down) all these years….. thanks for the interesting new insight. By the way, my paper/pad of choice is a 5″x8″ pad of 100 sheets of white graph paper, made by ampad (www.ampad.com). And I have tried scores of pads. These have me hooked.

By: gtdfrk

gtdfrk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:12:34 +0000

First of all, I enjoy reading your -recently discovered- blog. As you know, I am also trying to keep other GTD enthusiasts informed about my very own experiences with implementing and using GTD, especially trying to create the perfect set of GTD tools. I really like to read about your permanent switch to analog GTD tools, after struggling with various digital/analog hybrid solutions. I’m still very much in this phase, moving away from digital tools to completely analog and back to a hybrid solution (at the moment). I hesitate to give up my custom Excel-based GTD system because it “synchronizes” beautifully to my PocketMods and it allows me to dynamically and efficiently sort, filter and group my next actions and projects (I tend to have long lists of both actually).