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GTD with OneNote: Set Up

Monday, April 2, 2007


To implement GTD with OneNote I first set up a new notebook as below:



Create a new OneNote notebook.


Set up a section in this notebook called TODAY and make a desktop shortcut to this section - see David Rasmussen's Blog on how to do this.
Now use Tools->Options->send to Onenote to set the default section for sending webnotes and printouts to to the TODAY section you have just set up.
Now use Tools->Options->save to set the default section for unfiled notes to the TODAY section.
Set up a Section in OneNote for the current month.
Set up a Section in OneNote as a monthly archive.
Set up a Section in OneNote for Active Projects..
Set up a Section in OneNote for Archived Projects.
Set up a Section in OneNote for support files.
Set up Tags with Status and Contexts - here are the ones I use..


Finally use View-> Tags Toolbar to make these contexts visible in a toolbar




So the notebook is set up - next post will be on stage 1 of the GTD process - collect

Posted by Rob at 7:36 PM  

4 comments:

looks like the images aren't working. I'm curious about what context and status tags you used.

Anonymous said...
April 4, 2007 1:53 AM  

I'm sorry the image link is not working for some people, i can see them so had no idea...
The tags i use at present are
PROCESS CTRL+1
@HOME CTRL+2
@WORK CTRL+3
@OUT CTRL+4
@Discuss with CTRL+5
PROJECT CTRL+6

I previously had far too many contexts but find the few I use above perfectly adequate. I think contexts could be a whole blog post on its own.

Rob said...
April 4, 2007 7:37 AM  

I have just moved to a new position and I am just starting out with both GTD and OneNote - I look forward to reading the rest of these posts!

Groover said...
April 19, 2007 2:48 AM  
iron garden gates said...
March 16, 2008 9:55 PM  

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