I felt as if I was missing something; if GTD was so spectacular, why did it seem to be so awful? After a bit of research and a bit of creativity, I decided that I’d just build my own GTD-based system from scratch using a Moleskine Ruled Pocket Notebook and inspired by the Hipster, the PigPog, and a bit of my own interaction design to make it as intuitive as possible for me to use. Considering there’s such a huge GTD community, I decided to publish my own Moleskine Hack for people to use. And, with that, I present the official hyalineskies GTD System.

In all honesty, calling the hyalineskies system a GTD system is kind of a misnomer, as it’s more closely related to the PigPog system than GTD: it cuts all of the organisation of GTD and pares it down to its task process. In this case, the Moleskine takes care of task Inboxing, Processing, Project outlining, and the Someday / Maybe list. “Hard calendar” events, such as doctor’s appointments and meeting times, are handled electronically by my Motorola Q. I’ve cut out the 43 Folders jazz and actually don’t use any type of foldering system at all; the folder in the back of the Moleskine is used for storing business cards (both my own and others’ cards.)