Text.

Ok, it goes farther than that. Grab your favorite text editor. Grab a copy of Quicksilver over at Blacktree. Search Merlin Mann’s setup at 43 Folders for Quicksilver…specifically to get to the point (follow his suggestions on the setup) where you can “Append Text to File”. Pretty soon you’ll be able to hit a key combination (option + space), it will bring up a text box, I type my thought, hit enter, and it’s saved to my todo w/o opening it. I can later sort, categorize, etc. There’s just so much about Quicksilver and GTD and Plain Old Text that is so right.

Ok, just give it a try. Part of the GTD greatness is that it’s a personal thing that can happen any way you want, with whatever tools you want. I’m just loving my current setup so much that I though I’d share.

Good luck!

What I am so totally digging about kGTD is how it moves the stuff that you don’t need to be thinking about right now out of the way. I just entered all of my major projects, with many, many things to do, and kGTD just distilled the whole mess down to 2 things that I need to be worrying about at the moment. The rest gets pushed out of the way until it’s time to deal with it (or if I go looking for stuff).

Very cool, and exactly what I need to help me cope more effectively and avoid paralysis.