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By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:24 +0000

@ Andre: I figured you had a immediate (reflexive) system like this – and I agree completely about the stuff everywhere. Part of my process includes having that information in Backpack or a .txt file that’s spotlight-able so that all I have to remember is the name to make it searchable. It also goes in my notepads – but it’s not extra stuff as opposed to contained stuff. If that makes any sense.

By: Andre Kibbe

Andre Kibbe — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:42:59 +0000

Hi Charlie,

Thanks for the generous mentions!

I should clarify my process a bit. When I said I enter contact information immediately, it’s because I’ve set a protocol of doing so, not necessarily because it supports the immediate action. On other words, the moment I get contact information from anyone that I anticipate contacting, I want to archive it and get rid of the source material. This goes back to the days before I implemented a paper system. I had a simple rule: if something’s on paper, I haven’t processed it yet; if I’ve processed it, I get rid of the paper. This made the collect/process cycle very straightfoward.

It’s really a personality preference. I hate “stuff.” I don’t like to see scraps of paper and business cards floating around; if they’re not processed, they become visual and cognitive static. I want to extract the relevant information and eliminate the chaff so I don’t have to rethink what’s important and what’s not.

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