Back in my old TGS-Pinoyweb blog I had talked about Getting Things Done + RHODIA (GTD+R). It's a reinvention by Japanese software Engineer Kenji Ohta. Ohta describes his system as a "Card game for push through work". He makes use of a Rhodia No. 11 pad and some self-made paper pockets. He writes one task on a Rhodia sheet and files them under any of the six labeled pockets (Inbox, Today, Week, Month, Someday, Hold).

While it is nice, the thought of capturing it on pieces of paper didn't quite take a firm foothold with me for some reason. But I still like his idea of David Allen's GTD. Then a thought hit me. Why not use TiddlyWiki? With this and the help of the TagglyTagging plugin, I was able to make a software version of GTD+R. I'm able to move my tasks across the six tags (which now represent the old paper pockets) with more ease.

Then there's the email. Well, I wanted to make sure that I'm able to apply the GTD+R approach here as well. Since I regularly use GMail, I decided to look up the GTDInbox plugin for Firefox+GMail. I ditched this long ago when it wouldn't work with the new version of GMail. When I took a look at it again, I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone finally updated the plugin. So I installed it and created the six tags again on my GMail accounts.

The result of all this? First, I now have a wonderfully clean Inbox! Also, I can finally say that I still have something to do and watch that ToDo list disappear at the end of the day. I still use my Chrono-Day Planner for fine-tuning schedules. But I have less paper now than before. :)