Getting Things Done (GTD) - Cult or Awesome?

watched hackers this morning and all we could keep saying was 'check out this sick xxxxx hack'

'check this epic hamburger hack'

'peep this ocean hack'

had-to-be-there hack

l337 grilled ch3353 hack

Jott. Jott! A THOUSAND TIMES JOTT!!!!

(http://www.jott.com)

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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

We need a thread for what the hell to put in 43 folders

botw

We need a thread for what the hell to put in the other 38 folders

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, I was just texting and emailing notes to myself, but Jott made the whole process faster and way, way easier.

gtd: invented by steely dan

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"send it off in a letter to yourself"

every time your collection list gets out of control you go back back do it again

I don't remember writing 'CLEAN YR FUCKING DESK' in my collection list yesterday.

lol my gf adds notes to my stuff all the time

But I actually wrote this and can't remember doing it. Yesterday was insane.

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.

and all this on the first day of the new semester too.

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

P.S. All kidding aside I hope you find it

carrying around your SS card is a terrible idea!

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.

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.

GTL

Most frustrating things about this:

-can't buy textbooks until new card comes in next week
-can't renew voter reg with no forms of ID
-can't get new DL without SS card
-can't get new SS card without DL
-can't get new student ID without DL

-can't get served alcohol

shit that hadn't even hit me yet. ;_;

gf lost her license last week too! now there will be no liquor in the home until we get new ones. wau

-no student discount at the tittybar

o dude stop it

will the horrors never sees

Oh you poor bugger.

Not much help now but when you replace/find it, should you take photos/scans of each open page once a week?

Well thankfully I was 3 pages from the end of the book and had already processed everything new AND had a spare in the bag because I fully expected to run out of pages today.

So the concern is mainly for the ID info rather than for the loss of the contents of the book.

Shame I won't get to shelve it with the others though.

Yep.

Shelving old to-do lists is a bit OCD, isn't it? 'What was the thing that I successfully completed on the 17th of July 2004? <rustle rustle> Ah yes, wash the cat. I did that.'

(aimed at the wacky Moleskine hack guides, obv)

Yeah I mainly shelve for aesthetic reasons. They look too good to toss out!

Looks dead arty too, rows of used Moleskines.

'What's this?'

'It's, uh, research for my memoirs'

So it turns out I was smart enough to leave my SS card in an old wallet (I'd been hoping against hope), and in selfsame wallet is an old DL! With the debit cxl'd, and with two forms of ID + SS card on hand, this may not be so bad after all.

Time Bandits
Yachts and jewels are all well and good, but nowadays the ultimate luxury is extra time. Here’s how to get some.

One of the joys of being super rich is thinking up new ways to flaunt your wealth. For the Medicis and the robber barons, palaces and art were the trophies of choice; for Larry Ellison and Roman Abramovich, massive yachts do the trick. But in today’s hyperactive, overscheduled world, more and more squillionaires have their eyes on a different kind of prize: free time. Days, hours and minutes are the new currency, the units by which the very successful measure their worth. So how does one perfect the art of time hogging? Here, a few tips from the masters:

Delegate. Name any task—somewhere, a billionaire is outsourcing it. One well-known mogul favors shabby chic cashmere sweaters but doesn’t have the patience to let them get slightly worn at the elbows, so he employs a man to wear them around for him first.

Delegate the delegating. Anyone with household help knows that, unfortunately, staff are people too. Employees have emotions and think everyone else wants to hear about them. No, no, no. Take a cue from the Victorian grandees, who kept their minions below stairs and under the thumb of a highly paid head butler. Hire an in-house shrink to listen to your staffers’ complaints and an aide to sort out their schedules.

Don’t read — digest. Never waste time even opening a book. Be like the high-flying producer who summons writers and thinkers to his office to give him highlights of their work.

Jump the gun. One British filmmaker keeps a closetful of gift baskets to dispatch the moment he hears about a friend’s new baby or award. These baskets contain cashmere throws and other generic treasures, along with presigned cards. The filmmaker knows that others might spend more time looking for meaningful gifts—but that time is wasted, since everyone remembers the first present to arrive.

Prebook. Not sure where you want to go on holiday next year? Save time and avoid weeks of stress later on by booking all the nice islands and villas now, just in case. After all, you can afford to lose the deposit, and you’ll be glad to see everyone else lose sleep.

Don’t divorce. When will people learn? A divorce is the surest way to waste time, emotion and money. Instead of trading in your spouse for a new model, just stay married and have affairs. Jimmy Goldsmith had it right when, during his third marriage, to Annabel Birley, he said that marrying a mistress just creates a vacancy.

Skip the party. Fundraisers are tantamount to torture and should be avoided at all costs. Giving money directly to charities makes one feel much better and saves on taxes. So send a donation to that good cause now, and skip the benefit. At a recent fundraiser, a powerful hedge fund manager was seen twiddling his thumbs while Elton John treated the crowd to a significant percentage of his repertoire. “Just during ‘Candle in the Wind’ I could have closed a deal in Shanghai,” the financier said with a huff. “Next year I’ll pay Elton to do one song and get out of here.”

Simplify. Truly successful people understand that time really is money; they’ve streamlined their lives accordingly and won’t waste a moment on fripperies. When Warren Buffett, the richest man on the planet, went to China with his close friend Bill Gates, he took along a hamburger chef. What? Burgers in Beijing? Well, imagine the amount of time he saved by not arguing with Gates over which restaurants to try. In the Forties, Miriam Rothschild, a brilliant self-taught scientist, believed that the real reason women lagged behind men was not because they were downtrodden but because they spent too much time buying clothes and choosing hairstyles. She wore only Wellington boots, had one style of dress and pulled her hair back in a chignon. And she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to science.

By Gordon Bennett

rich fuckers edging in on the web II.o hipster moleskine game

yeah i read that this morning and i hope to god that at least the sweater elbow thing is a joke