Moleskines, the IMAC of notebooks?

I’ve been trying to find a way to organize my thoughts, tasks, and plans. Palm PDAs are nice, but cumbersome and susceeptible to crashes/dead batteries/whathaveyou (In fact, I’ve been waiting 2 weeks for a replacement battery for my Palm V). I’ve always liked writing things down, and have noticed that since I’ve been typing everything into Outlook that my writing has deteriorated significantly.

I’m debating now between going back to a plain old notebook for most of my note-taking (I use a plain Ampad notebook, decorated with a random photo I took to help distringuish them), using a Hipster PDA combined with Outlook for archiving, or trying a more organized paper planner system.

Despite having done the Franklin Covey system for years, I find it a little limiting. It’s great for long-term planning, but a little too limiting for day-to-day use. Setting your priorities in a neat A B C list doesn’t get you a whole lot when your boss knocks that plan ass-over-teakettle. The Getting Things Done plan seems a little more up to date.

What I should really do is find a good refresher time management and project management course and get work to send me to them. I’m swamped right now with strategic projects, making ends meet, managing day to day needs, family, and home. Anything to keep my head above water will help.

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