A Trifle Absurd

A GTD Journey

One of the great things about GTD is that it’s technology-agnostic. You can do it with pen and paper, or use all sorts of software tools. And in the last year, I’ve wandered all over that map.

When I first got into GTD, I kept all my lists in text files on my home computer. At the time I was working at home, so everything was always handy. If I needed to go out and run errands, it was easy to just quickly jot down a list to take with me.

But I got a little bogged down and wondered if just getting it all out on paper would help. I switched to a vanilla Hipster PDA, and that worked well for a while. I liked the portability, but got tired of having to recopy lists to get rid of old items and reorder things.

So I went from the Hipster PDA to an actual PDA, a Palm Z22. That was great fun, but it got old too: in particular, text entry was always a pain, even with help like MessagEase. And the Z22 just wasn’t small enough to be truly pocketable.

Now I’ve switched to a hybrid system, with some things on the computer and others on paper. But this entry is long enough already, so I’ll save that for next time.