As I mentioned previously, I've been bitten by the gtd bug. Specifically, I've succumb to the Moleskine Fetish strain of the virus.
The manufacturers of the Moleskine line of notebooks must have started a big marketing and distribution campaign in the US. These notebooks were once hard to find, and now they're popping up everywhere. (Some styles are still hard to come by, but you should be able to find some kind of moleskine in stock in most bookstores and better stationery stores here in the DC area.) On the 43 folders list, I've seen links to vendors selling Moleskines fly by, as if these things are hard to find online.
Silly me. They're hard to find until you actually bother to look for them. ;-)
Lest you think that the Moleskine fetish is a requirement for acquiring the gtd bug, let me heartily recommend the Hipster PDA -- a very efficent replacement for a Palm Pilot consisting of a pen, a binder clip, and a stack of index cards. Sort of a 21st Century update of brian's mid 1990's LoFi hack, the PAA[*].
*: Personal Analog Assistant
Re:Hadn't heard of that...
ziggy on 2005-01-04T16:05:21
Be prepared to put a hold on it again a few months after you read it. A lot of people on the 43folders list talk about how they keep a copy handy for reference when they have questions. David also recommends reviewing gtd every six months or so, to clarify some points you may have been unclear about before, or remind yourself of what else you need to be doing.Of course, that's a backdoor way for him to sell more books and bump up his royalty checks.
;-) But seriously though, it's a good enough book (despite its flaws) that you probably want to have a copy handy, whether you buy it in paperback, used, or just do your best to take good notes while you're reading it. If you need something specific from the book, like the workflow diagrams, there are many versions floating around the web. Then again, I'll buy pretty much any book, so take that with an appropriate amount of salt.
:-)
