33 Responses to “GTD hack for pocket Moleskine infobook”

• Jennifer on January 6th, 2007 at 16:58

  So is the info book just for capturing ideas on the fly? Then you translate them into next actions and put them on the appropriate list?

• admin on January 6th, 2007 at 18:38

  [quote comment="6"]So is the info book just for capturing ideas on the fly? Then you translate them into next actions and put them on the appropriate list?[/quote]

  Actually, it is supposed to be a full-blown mobile GTD system. The six relabeled sections of the Moleskine infobook and the expandable inner pocket supply everything I need to keep GTD going.

  However, I haven’t made my mind up about which system is best suited for me. Right now I am using Excel in combination with PocketMods. I’m very tempted though to start using this GTD hacked Moleskine in combination with my pocket Moleskine diary 2007!

• Juliana on January 9th, 2007 at 16:06

  Thank you for sharing your GTD experiences! I’d already posted your blog on my delicious.

• admin on January 9th, 2007 at 20:59

  [quote comment="10"]Thank you for sharing your GTD experiences! I’d already posted your blog on my delicious.[/quote]

  Thank you very much!

• Moleskine Infobook Hack at The Cranking Widgets Blog on January 13th, 2007 at 08:18

  [...] My new buddy gtdfrk from flickr (I’d post his real first name if I knew what it was - sorry has a really cool Moleskine hack using an Infobook and a labeler to create pocket-sized GTD system.  Definitely worth checking out if you’re an analog GTD’er on the go! [...]

• Two More Moleskine Hacks » Bill2me.com on January 13th, 2007 at 21:12

  [...] This week I stumbled upon two new hacks that I thought were pretty interesting. The first I want to mention uses the Moleskine Small Info Book for Travel. I’d seen this variation of the Moleskine notebook previously but really hadn’t paid it much mind. I thought to myself… “I’m not traveling so I guess this really doesn’t help.” Well, this hack goes over re-labeling the topic tags to for a more Getting Things Done approach. While it’s similar to a hack that I previously mentioned over on Hyalineshies I do like this a bit better only because the sections are protected by the Moleskine Binder. [...]

• Bill2me on January 13th, 2007 at 21:13

  This is a neat hack for the travel info book, I like it a lot. I’d seen these books a few times in the past but always dismissed them because I really wasn’t traveling.

  This is a great way to re-purpose it!

• admin on January 15th, 2007 at 11:15

  [quote comment="14"]This is a neat hack for the travel info book, I like it a lot. I’d seen these books a few times in the past but always dismissed them because I really wasn’t traveling.

  This is a great way to re-purpose it![/quote]

  You’re right! I did see the Moleskine infobook a couple of times in the store, but dismissed it because I don’t see myself keeping track of “bed”, “facilities” et cetera while traveling. Playing around with my other Moleskines and reading about other GTD hacks gave me the idea of hacking the infobook!

• bob on February 9th, 2007 at 02:47

  this looks sooo good! i just picked up a few pens to test drive (my space pen blotches, so i am trying the G-2, Dr. Grip, and UniBall Signo 207), and two moleskine infobooks arrived by post. tomorrow, i put the label printer to work! thanks for what looks like a fantastic hack.

• admin on February 10th, 2007 at 23:12

  Enjoy your GTD infobook! Let us know how you like it!

• homewiz on February 18th, 2007 at 14:38

  got here via a digg and a few clicks. im just wrapping up reading GTD for the first time. before i actually implemented anything, i wanted to read through the whole book and see the whole picture first.

  one concern i had was the whole analog/paper thing. it seems that this whole system is very much low-tech. i know david unapologetically describes it as the most efficient way, but i would much prefer to have everything electronic and available. i can imagine losing my 2007 book sometime in september.

  i currently am a heavy treo user, along with gmail (docs&spreadsheets) etc.

  anyone have a solid hightech solution?

• admin on February 18th, 2007 at 14:54

  @homewiz:

  May I suggest starting at the GTD Index? It contains a lot of links to interesting GTD blog posts and many links to (online and offline) software you could use to implement a more high-tech approach to GTD!

  Good luck and let me know if you succeed!

• The havers of Rob Sharp » Getting Things Done with a Moleskine on April 29th, 2007 at 06:11

  [...] seeing this post on this GTD website, I’ve ordered myself a nice new Moleskine Infobook from Pencity to keep [...]

• Toby on May 7th, 2007 at 23:20

  I have a question: It is unclear from the pictures. Is each page’s tab labeled with “Bed” (or whatever section you are in) or is only the first page in the section labeled? That is, are the tabs for the first 30 pages labeled ‘Bed’ over and over, or is only the exposed page labeled bed and the rest are blank?

  Thanks,
  Toby

• admin on May 8th, 2007 at 05:22

  @Toby

  Very good question. In the original Infobook as well as in my GTD hacked version only the tab of the very first page of the section is labeled.

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• wombat on July 6th, 2007 at 17:04

  OK, so I’ve done this hack to my moleskine, but I’m wondering how you deal with contexts…I am just using a page inside my actions section per context at the moment. Any other ideas?

  Thanks - I love this!

• gtdfrk on July 8th, 2007 at 10:09

  @wombat:
  Well, I’m not actually using this Moleskine infobook at the moment (anymore) to Get Things Done… but, if I would, I would reserve several pages in the Next Action section of the infobook for each context. I definitely wouldn’t add labels on the page because that would defeat the purpose of using the infobook with the neat sections in the first place! One other possibility: use 2 infobooks! One for your project list, someday/maybe list and so on. The other exclusively for your Next Actions so you can use the sections as separate contexts (if you don’t need or use more than 6 contexts, that is).

• randy on October 9th, 2007 at 15:21

  nice hack. with your idea, I decided to modify some of the plain pocket moleskines I had stockpiled. Knowing that my next actions take more pages, I allocated more pages to that section, more to reference, less to projects, etc.

  then, with the help of a razor blade and some cardboard backing, i began to slice the appropriate partitions in my plain notebook and voila! custom GTD/info book.

• gtdfrk on October 11th, 2007 at 19:09

  @randy:
  Good idea, I saw that kind of Moleskine hack before. Perhaps you could share a picture of your modified Moleskines?

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• Steve on July 31st, 2008 at 23:41

  Yeah, good idea. It would be nice to have an idea of your layout within and on the pages of the GTD hack?

• dave on September 8th, 2008 at 17:12

  Excellent job. I did it the moleskine tab hack the hard way, I cut my own pages. Lots of work but then, at least you can create the number of pages you want in each tab.
  …dave

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• Bobby on December 16th, 2008 at 23:58

  Hi,

  Thanks for the tip. One thing i don’t understand with this solution is what you write in the “Projects” section : the projects are composed of next actions, but you have another category for next actions…

  Thanks.

• gtdfrk on December 17th, 2008 at 07:42

  @Bobby:
  The Projects section is merely a list of project names, or placeholders. GTD projects consist of 2 or more actions, which are listed in the Next Actions or Waiting For section.

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