socialmedian: GTD Times: Organizing on the iPhone

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Nov 03, 2009

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Thanks for this community contribution from Pete Tambroni. Here's how he has setup his GTD organization on the iPhone...

In the original Getting Things Done, much of the focus was on paper systems with an electronic complement. These days much of our world is the opposite.

I try to have as much as possible in electronic form with a paper complement. Having things on a computer or PDA allows it to be searchable and easily changed from one category to another. But just because we can search for something doesn't mean we should. Why not just know where it is?Despite limitations of paper systems they do have the advantage of offering visual and tactile boundaries where a computer based system allows data to stagnate easily and just be searched. This clogs not only the system but our heads!

I have several programs on my iPhone dedicated to organizing and sorting information. But I found myself using all of them all of the time. That didn't make sense - I don't open my file cabinet every day. My electronic boundaries had broken down! To-Dos had meandered to my refere ...Read the full article

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