Organizer Nine-Month Checkup

I’ve been doing several admin-type things the past few days. Today, I tackled my calendar, modifying Dave Seah’s Compact Calendar 2008 into a two-column half-sheet layout, printing out another year’s worth of monthly calendar sheets and making two-week spreads up to May 31, 2008, then removing older calendar sheets from my organizer and archiving them [...]

Two exciting new arrivals

First: Custom Shadow Box business cards, previously mentioned, but here’s the photo. I miscalculated and put the photos on the non-glossy side of the paper, so for the next printing I’ll reverse the card so that the photos end up on the glossy side.

Second: My sister gave me a belated birthday present — a Circa [...]

Freelancer’s Motivational Tool: Week Tracking Sheet v1

I have been suffering from the worst case of unmotivation that I’ve ever had in my life. I would really like to just read ALL DAY and not do anything else until Steve comes home. (Okay, maybe I’ll take a few sips of blackberry limeade every now and then.) My friends look at me oddly [...]

GTD Project List Form v2

I [finally!] revised my Project List Form by swapping the positions of the checkbox and code box. This makes it easier to scan the project titles (which I write starting from the left side in English) and easily see which projects have been completed.

Download

Project List Form v2 – project-list-v2.pdf
The PDF is editable in Illustrator, if [...]

My GTD implementation and work area tour

Time to finish up my opening series of GTD posts with a description of my workflow — and a tour of my work area to boot!

GTD Project Detail Form v1

This comes after my GTD Project List Form v1 post. Take a look if you need some background on the concept of Projects within Getting Things Done and want to see the “parent” or “companion” form that goes along with this one.
Concept
I mentioned before that I had also created a Getting Things Done-inspired Project [...]

GTD Project List Form v1

In my previous post about Getting Things Done, I mentioned that I had created forms for keeping track of my projects. As promised, here is my first post about one of my forms — a Project List Form.
Project Concept
A little bit of GTD theory: David Allen defines anything that will take more than one or [...]

Compact Grocery Shopping List

One of my weekend projects was to revise my Efficient Grocery Shopping List and make it fit a half-sheet of paper so that I could put it into my organizer. I also wanted to somehow incorporate a different grocery store list for the local food co-op, which I’ve started going to more often to purchase [...]

Organizer Three-Month Checkup

It has been three months since I began using My New Organizer.
To review, here are the specs of my organizer and the current order of my pages:

Compact Project Task Cards v1

New addition to My Organizer: Compact Project Task Cards. (Download available!)
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been keeping track of my various “projects I’m working on” in the extra margin space of my weekly planner sheets (in the photo above, it’s the space between the day-boxes and the binder rings, under the cards). However, [...]