OneNote as a GTD container

I’m pretty much a paper based GTDer; I just get along bet­ter with cel­lu­lose and ink. But for those of you who pre­fer to get things done elec­tron­i­cally, over at Life­hacker, Gina has a nice arti­cle on the basics of set­ting up the var­i­ous parts of a GTD sys­tem in GoogleNotebook.

A sim­i­lar setup can be cre­ated in a OneNote note­book using one sec­tion for each of the five basic cat­e­gories. The only hitch in this approach is that in OneNote you can’t share only one sec­tion of a Note­book. So you can’t give other peo­ple access to your InBox with­out giv­ing them access to the rest of your notebook.

I don’t use OneNote for my Inbox so shar­ing isn’t an issue.

If your col­lec­tion of stuff is as big as my col­lec­tion you may want to divide your sys­tem into five note­books rather than using sec­tions in a sin­gle note­book. This solves the shared/not shared Inbox prob­lem and if you’re work­ing with really large files over a net­work allows for some improve­ment in performance.