All weeks in three folders

- Saturday, December 24, 2005

I'm a user of the very popular David Allen Getting Things Done approach to organize my work life. I've been into it for about a year now. My Outlook implementation is working great but I'm still struggeling with the paper stuff. At the beginning I had a big @action box where I put any supportive material for the my tasks (any non-virtual stuff).

After a few weeks I noticed I can't find anything there and it had become an inbox and reference replacement of some kind. So I needed to do something. I didn't like the 31-days plus 12 months folder idea because I don't have that much paper stuff for have one shelf for each day. So I came up with these 3 folders with 9 splitted shelfs. See the picture! This system has 3*9=27 shelfs. I use a shelf for a week and then the week half a year later because my tasks should not be planned half a year in advance.
So if there's a shelf for week 52 that will also be used for week 26 in the next year then. The unused 27th shelf I have labeled "Someday" - until now it was always empty.

In the shelfs I put any paper stuff I will need in the next weeks: Invoices that I must pay in two weeks, "Waiting for"s of sent letters etc. I then review the next week's shelf during my weekly review (which is on Wednesdays by the way) and create reminders due in the next week. In opposite to my earlier @action box it is now very easy to track future paper work and find currently required papers.

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Sebastian in winter

- Saturday, December 10, 2005

Here are some pictures of me in winter time.

On a skiing journey to France we had to use my never failing, extremely reliable car ...NOT!


Somehow we made it over the alps, so finally, let's go skiing...


It was a great time with great friends. I especially like this one, don't know why *g*


All these girls make me tired:


I need a bed, so I had to bloat my own bed:


Winter is great time to ... drink.


So, if you want more, let me know...

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