This goal takes a lot of discipline. I know I haven’t made any entries in a while, but I have been doing this. In fact, organizing with GTD was a major factor in getting my bedroom remodel done. I kept a “bedroom” folder in my GTD box and every time I took a measurement or had an idea or picked up paint samples, it went into the folder. Quite a few mornings I grabbed that folder on my way to work, reviewed it at coffee to plan next actions and took it with me to the hardware store to pick up supplies on the way home. If I wasn’t using GTD, I probably never would have got around to getting to the hardware store (why bother, I wouldn’t have measured anything either), and that project would still be a dream.

I’m falling down on the more detailed stuff, and the problem is procrastination (or maybe I’m just letting myself get too busy and I’m not keeping up on this. I think I’m going to go back to my spreadsheets for housework. Even though they aren’t purely GTD, they are GTD based and I seem to be most successful when I use them. I need the challenge of competing with myself for a high spreadsheet score.

The 43 folders method is working great for keeping track of birthdays, school events and things like that. But I need to be more disciplined about putting the information in, and doing my daily reviews.

So, project folders are working great, but I need to get more disciplined about daily reviews and little details.