Day 1 of getting back to GTD and org-mode was an unqualified success.  I went through all my tasks this morning, identified the next steps on my current projects, and dove into work.  It ended up being a very productive day, though I was definitely mentally drained when I got home.  It was freeing (at least for a day) to get tasks recorded in org-mode and out of my head.

So, with that in mind, I stumbled across an interesting website today: 750words.com.  I had no idea what to make of the name of the site, but they explain (keeping in mind that a typical page of writing has 250 words):

Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It’s about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.

It is yet another “get it out of your head so it can stop blocking you from making progress” type exercise, in some ways analogous to GTD.  I love the idea of this, not that I’m about to take on another daily activity right now.  I think trying to write that much each morning would rather be daunting and stressful at this point.  I will file away morning pages as a concept to return to later, though.  They can get tagged Someday in my GTD files…