Great article, Jason. Thanks! I'm reading "One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way" by Robert Maurer, so I'm with you!

Jim C, Maulleigh: I like it! Someone mentioned they do the same thing with books, which makes sense.

Hi blackbrrrd. I'm glad that index-based approach works for you. I do suspect many people would find it complex for their needs... Kinda' reminds me of the paper tiger system. (I'm not a fan of it, though I know people who appreciate it.)

Hey Mike - I hear you. I'm a GTD practitioner (and self-employed consultant) and use the A-Z myself. It may be that most people don't have your genius for alphabetizing. For me, it's much easier to go to the bookmark file, rather than re-compute the location. For you it's obviously not a big payoff...

Thanks very much for the link, Gina, and to the commenters for the neat twists.

Another great article by Alvin - thanks for the pointer!

No question about it - the Dymo LetraTag QX50. From "Why every problem should be a GTD project" - http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-ev…

Thanks very much for the link, and the great discussion. It's neat to hear the creative variety of ways people use the feature, given its limitations. As I said in the post, I'm like Nemtynakht in that I am "zero-based," which means I decide action when I first see the message, store the actions elsewhere in a…

Thanks very much for the link, and the great discussion. It's neat to hear the creative variety of ways people use the feature, given its limitations. As I said in the post, I'm like Nemtynakht in that I am "zero-based," which means I decide action when I first see the message, store the actions elsewhere in a…

I'm with Narsil - instead of asking "What's the best way to watch TV," we might ask "Is TV a productive use of our time?" I tend to include it with Podcasts - too slow, very low quality, and not worth the effort. But *very* addictive, of course. (And do *not* get me started on kids and TV.)

I actually recommend to folks that they *not* use filters. The reason? They're simply delaying the decision-making that you (and only you) need to do for each message. This is part of the "deal with things when they first arrive" approach.

This is related to the idea getting things out of your head to reduce stress. I things need "space" to grow, including ideas and creativity (mental space), new personal growth behaviors (habit space), etc. I also totally believe having too many things causes stress. In our materialistic culture, the acquisition of…

Choosing money over time is a real Western trap, IMHO. We think that having more money will enable all the "good" things in life. However, our perspective on "good" now comes from the media, which tells us good=things. So to get a better life, buy a bigger house, a more expensive car, more toys for the kids, etc. But…

Thanks very much for the pointer. I'm a GTD-er (which means I only schedule things that *have* to happen at a certain day/time), and I'm working on integrating scheduling ideas like time maps with GTD's Next Actions. I'm convinced there's a nice GTD1.5 to come of it.

You may find the "STING" method helpful: