It finally happened. I caved and bought a Moleskine.
I’d been reading about how fantastic they are for an awfully long time…but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I happened upon a decent deal and picked up a couple.
I love it. Really.
The key here is that it’s part of my ongoing GTD implementation, and not all that novel.
You can find scores and scores of suggested hacks for using your Moleskine with GTD, and many of them are good. Most people suggest using tabs along the edges of your pages in order to create quick “folders” or action lists. There’s no doubt that this approach is the most practical, but I don’t want the tabs to get all jacked up when I carry the Moleskine in my pocket.
Therefore, I’m using those little colored circle stickers that you can get in packs of 200 at any random store. You can see one of them in the picture here. I’ve found that the trick here is to fold the stickers over the page edge so that there is a slight excess, and so the sticker fold forms a miniature “tab” that only protrudes away from the paper just slightly.
I’ve had minimal problem using these special “tabs” and carrying the book around in my back pocket. And as an added bonus, get this: you can store a sheet or two of unused stickers in your accordion file at the back…perfect for quick, on-the-fly list creation.