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Old 11-07-2006, 09:40 PM
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Are any of you familiar with the term, or the phenomenon of having productivity based fetishes?

I first saw a mention of this on 43Folders a while back (43F wiki article), and I recognized the symptoms immediately: being enthusiastic about office supplies, and enjoying nothing more than coming up with elaborate systems for organization and productivity etc.

I adore systems, and sometimes walk into office supply stores just to compare different pens, fondle the Moleskines and contemplate the selection of Post-It variants, just to name a few.

Still, I'm not even into GTD or anything (yet), so I suspect that I'm only mildly afflicted by this compared to many of you.

And I'd love to hear some stories (<PG13, please)

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Old 11-08-2006, 01:30 AM
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Hey helgi,
this has been a particular problem of mine! I love GTD, even though it often is slight overkill for what I need (and sometimes is the only thing that actually works with the amount of new tasks I get)... but yeah, I often try out different "systems" and keep switching my organization schemes around so much that if I was able to just stick with one I would be able to get much more done. However, it always seems like that isn't easy!

Example: I'm currently LOVING a small Mac app called Inbox, but it's a very early and unstable beta. New builds are released roughly weekly, though, and I feel comfortable with this program as a final solution--it just isn't bug-free yet. So I'm waiting for it to get finished. My other options would be to go back to Hipster PDA (which I didn't like, due to all the rewriting of lists all the time), or switch to Thinking Rock (a cross-platform Java program), which is what I'm currently doing. Even though I have issues with TR, it's the "best" at the moment... but I can't seem to stop monitoring new developments in the organizational world as if they were somehow relevant to my life

My advice is the same as most people's--pick a system, get really comfortable with it (even its flaws!), and only explore new or expanded options if they actually would contribute to your PRODUCTIVITY (not the "wow" factor) in some measurable way. Example: understanding the limitations of paper yet tolerating them, then switching to a program which DOESN'T require a huge relearning but does assist with the exact flaws you previously identified with paper.

Really hard not to keep looking, though
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Old 11-08-2006, 01:40 AM
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Talking Yeah, I love them, lol

I'm indeed very passionate about office supplies but I guess that's because they make organization so much easier? When I visit a store I can hardly miss the office supply division. Those are my little toys in the office
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