GTD and Your Capture Tool [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Are you Analog or Digital? Or a little of each?
In Ready for Anything, David Allen discusses the value of using both paper and his computer for notes and planning:
“I love the high-tech/high-touch dance of handwriting notes and then assimilating and processing them into the computer. I often coach people who are looking for the perfect way to use only one or the other - all paper or all computer. I’ve found that doing both increases the use and value of both. [emphasis mine, ed.]
I carry a paper organizer and a project notebook, but I keep my project information on the web. I make handwritten notes for planning and brainstorming, then type them up into a text document or spreadsheet, or even load them into a mind mappping program.
I agree that using both types of tools increases my capacity for being creative, and allows for revision and editing as I do the transfer. Sometimes just the act of typing up quick notes will spark an idea or suggest a link that I had not noticed before.
Now it is your turn. What is your favorite writing tool? A paper notebook, or an electronic device? Why? And is there a way that you could do or capture more if you combined your system?
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Original post here: Stephen
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