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Creating a Moleskine PDA

September 21, 2007 Adam Walker Cleaveland

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I love organizing things – creating more organization in my life. When I was in Idaho, I used an old Palm Pilot for awhile, and then used a Sony CLIÉ for awhile. So I love to be organized and I also love the newest tech gadgets. However, there is a movement of folks who are striving to get back to a paper-based system, one that helps enable creativity for some. It’s based on a book called Getting Things Done and the movement is called GTD. Many people have “hacked” Moleskines to be their GTD-devices, their PDAs. My friend Wess wrote about how he organized his Student GTD version here and I was intrigued. I love Moleskines – I have a few, and I use a couple of the super-thin ones for notes sometimes, but it would be nice to have it all in one place.

To be honest, after reading this and this, I became more confused. It seems there is definitely a learning curve within this community – some lingo that is required. But Wess encouraged me to just keep on keepin’ on and I put together a little GTD Moleskine of my own (pictured above). You can see what supplies I used here – but it did include my favorite pen, the Zebra F-402.

Sarah thinks I’ll last maybe 3 weeks using this system – I’m giving myself till the end of the semester. I think I can do it – and hopefully it will help me stay a bit more organized.

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Filed Under: General, Technology Tagged With: Getting-Things-Done, GTD, Moleskine, Moleskine-Hacks, Organization, PDA

Adam is an artist, entrepreneur, pastor, husband and father. He lives in Skokie, Illinois with his wife Sarah (who is also a pastor), their son Caleb, and their dog, Sadie. Read More…

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