I've got to get organized.

[Bill McGonigle]

On Aug 13, 2007, at 09:17, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> So after that prep work, what do people use to keep organized under  
> linux?

I'm leaning heavily into emacs with a series of 'todo' files - just  
plain text.  ctrl-s (search) lets me jump around in them.

I'm just getting into GTD, but so far the best idea is to keep all of  
your stuff in one place.  I recently renamed my 700-item InBox  
'__DMZ', which I'm slowly going though, but the idea is to 'stop  
sucking'.  Since then, I've committed to keeping my InBox empty every  
day, as often as possible.  If there's something I need to do, it  
goes onto the todo list, not sitting in the inbox.  That way it's in  
the same place as everything else.

I got a Fujutsu ScanSnap scanner to scan all my paper into one place  
for processing.  So far, that world and the todo list aren't merged,  
but I hope they might be some day.  I've used a Moleskine pad for a  
year and a half, but I've been historically bad about offloading its  
contents onto the todo.  Another place I need to 'stop sucking'.

The 43folders guy gave a techtalk @Google on 'inbox zero' that was  
worth watching.

The best thing is to use the system that you'll actually use.   
Anything else is just a waste of time.

-Bill

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