GTD & Google Notebook

Yet, another GTD solution– This one is built on Google Notebook.

Lifehacker has an interesting post on using Google Notebook as a GTD tool. All in all, it is a pretty creative solution. The nice thing about it is that you can access your tasks from anywhere that you have internet access. Many dedicated tools are accessible only from one computer. One of the big disadvantages seems to be creating a usable printed output. For the GTD system to really work you need to be able to bring your contextual tasks will you. Not for nothing, but many of the dedicated tools also have this problem.

So, if your looking for a free on-line tool for tracking your GTD tasks, check out the post at Lifhacker.

Getting Things Done with Google Notebook

…Sure, desktop apps like Thinking Rock and iGTD are cool, but for people who live in a web browser, Notebook automatically includes links in notes (including individual Gmail messages) and its contents are available from any computer where you’re logged into your Google Account.…To get started you want to create 5 new notebooks, representing the classic GTD silos: Inbox, Next Actions, Projects, Someday/Maybe and Reference. I like to prepend “GTD” to the beginning of each notebook title so that I can sort them alphabetically and separate them from other notebooks I might have set up.

…Once you’ve got the 5 GTD areas set up, it’s time to move your info in. To add to a notebook (say, “Next Actions”), click on it and hit the “New Note” button.

…Now that you’ve got a simple GTD framework set up with Notebook, you want to quickly capture items you come across on the web, or that arrive in your email inbox for processing later.

…With the extension installed, if you come across something on a web page you want to add to your system, you can highlight text on the page, and click the Notebook icon in your browser chrome.

…To move an item from your Inbox notebook into its right place in the system, from the drop down menu on the far right side of it, choose “Move.”

M Nassal 2007

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