Just found your substack while in the throes of organizational despair, and I want to thank you as a newly minted early career faculty member! I will be perusing the whole GTD set of articles since it seems a stepped up version of what I do already, although less effectively.
Regarding in-the-shower capture: I came across a waterproof writing pad on Amazon that has suction cups and attaches to the shower wall, also comes with its own pencil. I have used this frequently and feel it justifies its $7 cost very well!
Thanks, I enjoyed this! Looking forward to hearing about your processing flow since I think that is where I could use a tune up.
I wonder if you’ve experimented at all with some of the new note taking tools which support back links? I’ve been using Logseq for a while now and it has some nice features for quickly capturing in a way that is also easy to link to other ideas and process later on a different machine. Also supports audio messages which is handy.
Of course it’s always good to be wary of shininess of new fancy tools over the old faithful methods (like your handy post-its) but I’ve found this one to be a valuable tool in my toolbox. Some other useful features too for academics like Zotero integration and some nifty PDF viewer features.
Hi. To capture ideas while in the shower, have you tried bellowing “Hey honey, please remind me to…”?
(Best I’ve got. Sorry.)
Just found your substack while in the throes of organizational despair, and I want to thank you as a newly minted early career faculty member! I will be perusing the whole GTD set of articles since it seems a stepped up version of what I do already, although less effectively.
Regarding in-the-shower capture: I came across a waterproof writing pad on Amazon that has suction cups and attaches to the shower wall, also comes with its own pencil. I have used this frequently and feel it justifies its $7 cost very well!
Thanks, I enjoyed this! Looking forward to hearing about your processing flow since I think that is where I could use a tune up.
I wonder if you’ve experimented at all with some of the new note taking tools which support back links? I’ve been using Logseq for a while now and it has some nice features for quickly capturing in a way that is also easy to link to other ideas and process later on a different machine. Also supports audio messages which is handy.
Of course it’s always good to be wary of shininess of new fancy tools over the old faithful methods (like your handy post-its) but I’ve found this one to be a valuable tool in my toolbox. Some other useful features too for academics like Zotero integration and some nifty PDF viewer features.