The Moleskine had no special features to invite this, aside from its simple design. It just happened to be the perfect blank slate for Getting Things Done devotees to hack for their purposes, a true tabula rasa. “Getting Things Done isn’t a paper-dependent method,” Allen told me last year. But, he said, the “easiest and most ubiquitous way to get stuff out of your head is pen and paper.” A pen and paper requires no power source, no boot-up time, no program-specific formatting, no syncing to external drives and the cloud. “You can waste time with all kinds of stuff,” Allen said, “but the
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