It might be hard to believe, but I’m deliriously happy with my Hipster. If I really needed a voice recorder, both of my current portable MP3 players have it. The portability, fault tolerance, ease of use, power consumption and flexibility can’t be beat. Hey Victor! Man, this topic is bringing out the WREK folks. I’d suggest that doing it the way that motivates me is the most important aspect of this. Why do you think doing a little more of that and slapping a binder clip on it is a make work project, but buying a Palm device, installing the desktop then setting up the categories and all that shit isn’t? I have no enthusiasm for any of that but I do for the Hipster. I already write my to-do lists and notes to myself on 3X5 cards and carry a pack of them in my backpack. I already prepare my podcasts with notes on a 3X5 card. I really didn’t like the productivity apps and frequently found myself walking to my computer to enter things there and then syncing because interacting with the Palm was painful. 90% of what I used them for was reading ebooks, 9% was playing Bejeweled. I’ve bought two of them, they both broke and I’m never buying another. I don’t like the OS, I don’t want to write anything in fucking Graffiti again in this lifetime. ![]() I can have the basic form together in no time, and expand as I see fit. Is a quest for getting my shit together with lowest cost and highest simplicity really so hard to believe? In fact, not counting the the overheard for the whole GTD thing, I’m anticipating that assembling my Hipster PDA will take no more than 10 minutes. I’ll respond as the latter, even if I’m wrong. Update: As JP points out in comments, someone has already done a Ruby on Rails implementation of the GTD system.Ĭhris, I can’t tell if you are being ironic and sarcastic or sincere. My hope is that once I am freed from the friction and ballast of my own disorganization, that my productivity in all aspects of life will skyrocket. ![]() I haven’t figured out what to do with this thing, so in the pile it goes with the other bunch of crap I don’t know what to do with. I already know most of the clutter in my life is actually physical manifestations of procrastination. Capturing without fail the important tidbits from the sea of incoming information in a way that I don’t have to remember them sounds like heaven to me. I always feel kind of overwhelmed and over my head, so I easily bought in to the belief in the goodness of this system. I’m now excited about putting all this into motion. By always having that in my pocket, I might actually do a better job of remembering what it is I want to talk about on the show. ![]() I already do my podcast prep on 3X5 cards, so it’s nothing to have one card in my H-PDA be the card for the next show. Dan Conover was giving away something much like this at the Charleston Uplifter meeting for people to take notes and exchange bits of information, and it just seems like a neat idea. It costs next to nothing, is completely flexible and reconfigurable, and requires very little overhead to get things rolling. That might seem oddly low tech for a cyber-spasmo such as myself but I think it might just work for the best. I have to decide what the mechanics will be, will I use a paper system or a computer system or what? It has to be portable between home and work, and although my original impulse was to try to build myself a system in Ruby on Rails, I’ve decided that more practical would be to make myself a Hipster PDA, probably with the DIY Planner templates. So this weekend I’m going to do the big initial push of getting myself working on the David Allen GTD system.
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