HI DERE UNREFLECTIVE SUCK-UP TO NOB-SUCKUNTRY. I HOPE YOU WANNA DIE SOOON. PEACE OUT I'M NOT GENERALLY FLECKING
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the triumphant return of noodle vague
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
if I ever arrive at a point in life where I genuinely feel that my brain is incapable of dealing with the volume of shit that I have to keep track of to function like a normal person, then I'm going to ditch out of every commitment I have and go live in the goddamn woods. or beach bum it. regardless.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^ this
- BIG AND aka the whatdriver
― and what, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
For me, the feeling that you need a system or need to do a better job keeping track of things stems more from thinking you could do a lot more than you do usually do if you could just keep up with the little random "oh, i should xyz" ideas that come and go all the time. It's not at all about functioning like a normal person, it's a sense that there's some next level, training montage shit out there.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that concept can also eat my balls. human brains are not for being pushed beyond their stock performance in every aspect just because a few latter-day snake oil salesmen talked some Type-A bozos into believing that the answer to their chronic insecurity was to augment said insecurities with pen-and-paper DIY databases on top of their other imaginary friends mr. e-mail and mr. cellular
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link
if I all of a sudden started "doing more than I usually do" it would just make relaxing that much harder and not actually get me extra vacation or a bigger paycheck - and I'm saying this as a person who has felt many times that I'd feel better if I could just be another overachiever, tried, and learned otherwise
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
you boys have fun
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
my favorite posters to 43things.com are the ones who just wish they could wake up on time in the morning
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 tombot
― and what, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
im getting all abbott here
that's what y'all get, working for the MAN
― Kerm, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks hoos, I'll have a look outside work.
Others: I don't use 90% of the GTD shit, just recording things and sorting them into do now / do later / information only (by project). No 43 folders, no any of the other stuff, I just can't be arsed with it.
I don't have too much to do, but I do have too many things to remember. A system like this just works like an organised to-do list for me.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
same here
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
but i don't plan on wasting any more breath defending this stuff to people who aren't interested. no reason to defend it anyway. works for me. you'll never want/need it. a+ everybody.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
ja. More absolving myself of wankery than anything.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
moleskine hack
― sleep, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
watched hackers this morning and all we could keep saying was 'check out this sick xxxxx hack'
― and what, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
'check this epic hamburger hack'
'peep this ocean hack'
had-to-be-there hack
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
l337 grilled ch3353 hack
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Jott. Jott! A THOUSAND TIMES JOTT!!!!
(http://www.jott.com)
― Jesse, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude one of my buds I visited in Boise had like 7 filled-up Moleskines on her shelf on a moleskin display box she stole from a store. And I told her 'lol orange juice hack' (w/context). She was not sanctimonious tho and did not have the FOLDERS.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the most useful thing in my life since the cell phone. I always have my phone on me and a "jott" takes less than 30 seconds from dialing to hangup. On average I use it at least once a day. Recent Jotts:
- 4 or 5 reminders of supplies I need to buy at my job (they always seem to occur to me when I'm not at my desk, or when I'm at lunch) - Xmas gift ideas - movies or books I want to buy or check out of the library or go see (probably the most common way I use the system--used to carry around a scrap of paper but lots of time didn't have a pen) - reminders of Dr. or dentist appointments - work/meeting schedules
Jott takes a load of my mind.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man but finding yr old movie/book lists is the best! "I was that convinced I had to see Pump Up the Volume? wtf?"
― Abbott, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Went with a tailored version of this method. More suited to the type of work I do, and projects can go in the same book. Now I have to get all the SHIT I have to do in there.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
She was not sanctimonious tho and did not have the FOLDERS.
-- Abbott, Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:04 AM
yeah i totes do not need the folders
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
We need a thread for what the hell to put in 43 folders
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
botw
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
We need a thread for what the hell to put in the other 38 folders
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm doing pretty much the same thing as jesse, but with toodledo. when i think of stuff (really similar stuff to his list), i just email it to my toodledo account from my phone, and it puts it on the list. i am way too lazy to properly GTD, but as i have a crap memory it's a lot nicer to just send an email rather than feel like i have to get out of bed to do x because otherwise i'd forget and then something bad would happen.
― colette, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
colette, I was just texting and emailing notes to myself, but Jott made the whole process faster and way, way easier.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
gtd: invented by steely dan
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"send it off in a letter to yourself"
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
every time your collection list gets out of control you go back back do it again
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't remember writing 'CLEAN YR FUCKING DESK' in my collection list yesterday.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
lol my gf adds notes to my stuff all the time
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
But I actually wrote this and can't remember doing it. Yesterday was insane.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 January 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys i lost my moleskine. major ;_; + panic. stupid me focusing on the redhead in front of me instead of noticing the notebook wasn't in my pocket until i was down four flights of stairs.
not on the bus. not on any of the stairs. information & library lost/found don't have it. it's got my phone # in it + a reward listed on the front page, but way in back is my debit card (which i just canceled), my DL, my student ID, and my fucking social security card.
shit.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
and all this on the first day of the new semester too.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and a check for my gf's half of the rent. fuck.
no worries though, it's just my ENTIRE FUCKING IDENTITY that's in it.
get a new Moleskine and then make a to do list in the moleskine:
HOW TO FIND MY OTHER MOLESKINE
1. Retrace steps 2. Check with lost and found again. 3. Think: if I was a Moleskine where would I hide? 4. Pray to St. Anthony
― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. All kidding aside I hope you find it
carrying around your SS card is a terrible idea!
― bell_labs, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I know right? I'm thinking that maybe I was smart enough to transfer it to the I-keep-it-in-my-glove-compartment-and-never-open-the-damn-thing wallet. But then maybe I wasn't.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
OK I'm not panicking anymore I'm just pissed at myself for doing this and worried about the poss of my SS card floating around. Debit cxl'd, can get a new DL (it expired in a couple months anyway), new student ID is no thing, but SS card floating around = fuck.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
GTL
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link