Uneasy Rhetoric

One of the cool things about getting big into the blogosphere is discovering that there are thousands of people out there, like me, with an organization fetish - people who have stepped over the edge of being hyper organized and into the realm where they spend more time fretting about their “system” than they do about the things the system is supposed to track.

Although it is somewhat Mac-centric (that isn’t a fault), 43Folders was the first (that I found), and I would argue one of the best, organization fetish sites around. 43Folders is big into the Getting Things Done system, which is the first organizing system that really clicked for me, although I will admit to being a lazy implementer.

There are many, many, more sites that feed this fetish. For example, Journalisimo seeks to “invite a return to analog,” because sometimes pen and paper is just the way to go. That is the reason I carry around a Moleskine, although I don’t use it nearly as much as I should, and that is the reason I am always a little ambivalent about my Handspring Visor. Yes it is great, and yes I can track so much more in digital form than on paper, but crossing off a to do is a factor of ten more satisfying on paper than it is on my PDA.