I never thought I’d do it… It was always the one part of GTD that seemed way too rigid… After all, you can use almost any technology (hi or low) for the other parts of GTD…

But, the thing is, my filing habits have been suffering. Let me put it more bluntly: my filing habits have always been atrocious. In the past, papers tended to get dumped anywhere and everywhere. Their final destination was inevitablely one of several unmarked boxes in the basement, which I’ve never had the heart to go through and thus have lugged from apartment to apartment.

Things have improved somewhat. But filing is definitely a weak link in my GTD processing chain. I’ll let things pile up in my inbox because I know that I don’t know where they go in the file drawer. I tried to use the Noguchi filing system (i.e., chronological by most recent use), but in the end it just seemed like a big mess to me, and I found it really difficult to take stock of what was actually in my files. So now we’ll see if the electronic labeler is really as magical as the Big D.A. says it is.