Hacking a GTD Moleskine

If the title to thise blog entry makes no sense to you whatsoever, feel free to just keep on moving. :)

I recognize that "Hacking a GTD Moleskine" will make sense to less than .01% of the English speaking world, but hey- he or she who has ears to hear...

Anyway- for those of you down with the GTD, but not necessarily wanting to hi-tech it, here's the lo-fi yet not Hipster version... mainly fo those of you looking for a way to add more functionality to that very cool Moleskine you bought but haven't really used in any significant way...

Here's how to make a Moleskine a mean, lean getting things done machine...

Once you’ve got the Moleskine prepped for use, it’s time to label your tabs. Take the Sharpie you used to mark the side of the book and write on your tabs. For two of the tabs (preferably of the same colour,) write INBOX / NEXT PROCESSED. For another two, wrote PROJECTS. For yet another pair, write SOMEDAY / MAYBE. These tabs will give you direct access to the proper sections of the Moleskine.

What about that last tab? Label it SPECIAL PRIORITY. It’s entirely optional, but having a special priority tab allows you to mark a Project or Task as taking priority over everything else. I’ve got the tab more for putting priority on social things than business things, as I tend to forget key social events more than I do key business ones.

Once you’re done labeling, put the spare INBOX, PROJECTS, and SOMEDAY tabs, as well as the SPECIAL PRIORITY tab, on the last page of the Moleskine. The last page of the Moleskine is card stock, so it holds the tabs well and is pretty useless for writing GTD content upon. Take the remaining three tabs and place them on the upper parts of the page, as close together as possible. Put INBOX on Page 5, PROJECTS on Page 123, and SOMEDAY on Page 189. If you tend to have more Projects, you’ll probably want to put the tab on a different page and increase the space available to Projects; this goes for the other sections as well and this is just a general guideline.

Read what to do next as well as how to prep your Moleskine here