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I capture everything to my wallet. The only things I type on my PDA are calendar items. New contact information, I write in the wallet. It's just quicker.

When you open a contact in Outlook 2003, one of the tabs is "Activities". That lists any tasks, appointments, or journal entries for which they are listed in the "Contacts" field.

No, you don't...

Manager Tools: The Art of Delegation

I'm driving GTD using Outlook, synchronised to my Treo using KeySuite. My approach to this is:


Having a single @Someone category, not one per person;
Tracking things to talk to Hermione...

I'm regularly surprised by just how many inboxen there are on my computer. The most obvious is my email inbox, which I regularly fight down to zero items. Here are some of the others:


My...

I'm still crazy about my official David Allen NoteTaker Wallet. I've been carrying it for at least a year.

(Minor blasphemy: I take more than one note per page. I cross them out as I process...

I'd still love folders designed for A4 -- both the travelling in-trays, and also the 43 folders.

I'd also love to hear more about the 2min timer.

Great to see another Connect member in Australia!

Mate, I'd throw you a line if I knew what a 1/3 cut was. I'm using some nice A4 sized manilla folders at work. Let me know if you want those...

Amen. I've started getting ruthless about deferring tasks. For those of you using ResultsManager, here's how:


If it's a stray task, mark it someday-maybe.

If it's a task you want to be...

Yow. I must try that out. My Next Action lists are unwieldy, so I resist looking at them. If shoving everything a week or more out into Someday/Maybe means I can read my Next Action list without...

I'm using just the one MindManager/ResultsManager instance to manage all of my affairs. I just paid for it, but I'm still uncomfortable with some of its warts.

I suspect your best approach is to...

Trying to distil it down:

If something occurs to you whilst looking at your next action lists, try to resist the urge to process it immediately. Write it on a piece of paper, throw it in your...