Kolz Blog

Lately, I have become torn with my selection of contexts. I am in IT so I have quite a number of computer related contexts and lately, I have found that it is easier to put everything on my mGTD that I keep with Moleskine Planner/Notebook. There are columns for next action, context, project, waiting for and S/M on the mGTD. I have found myself writing down NA for all of my tasks. Sometimes I will drop a context in the list, sometimes, when applicable, I will put the project down. I do us the waiting for column a lot. So that has gotten me to think. Do I really need contexts in my current system? I always have my Moleskine with me and inside there is 2 mGTDs: one blue for work stuff, and one red for personal stuff. When I am in a situation when I am taking notes and not really worrying about creating NAs then I will use the notebook side of my Moleskine and then create NAs at a later time. I think that this is helping me out significantly more than trying to come up with contexts, and managing them separately on their own lists. One thing that I have not completely worked out is how to handle projects. Most of my actual work day is working projects. My actual support side of my job is usually done as soon as a request comes in. Eighty-five percent of my support calls take under 5 minutes, so they do not see my lists at all. Those that require additional research and coming back at a later time, go directly to my list as soon as I get back into my office. I would love to see the mGTD add a project form to it stable (**hint hint** Stephanos!) then I could keep my Project lists with the associated NAs with me in my Moleskine. I will have some time next week to really ruminate on this as I will be at a conference in Huntsville, Alabama for 3 nights. I plan on using my alone time in the hotel to think and rethink some aspects in my system to create a better workflow for me. I am also going to try to finally sit down and listen to all of the GTD Fast! CDs, as well as take in a book not yet chosen. Also on this trip, a little BBP History will be made. Jason and I will finally meet up. Many probably don’t know that Jason and I have never met face to face. We met on the 43Folders boards and found that we had many things in common and struck up a friendship over IM. Hopefully over our lunch, we will start some planning for some things to come on BBP. We both love GTD, and really enjoy having this outlet for our rants and raves about all things productive. So that means that I will be out of pocket until late next week, but I may have another post in me before I leave. We will have to see. - Michael