{"id":9519,"date":"2017-12-06T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2017-12-20T22:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:40:46","slug":"daily_1103_-_equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2017\/12\/06\/daily_1103_-_equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1103 &#8211; equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1103_laptop.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nSettling in at my new job and equipping my desk with the essentials. The computer was the first and most obvious one, but close behind are a good pen and a pad of sticky notes.<\/p>\n<p>I am not always able to stick to the GTD method but the one thing I do nearly religiously is noting down anything that needs to be done, which is why I like to have pen and paper at hand at all times. Any time someone I am pulled into a meeting or discussion or anything similar, my first reflexive reaction is to grab the pen and paper.<\/p>\n<p>(My other strongly ingrained GTD-ish habit is to always confirm at the end of a meeting what the next actions are, and who is responsible for which ones. Surprisingly often it transpires that we didn&#8217;t really know that yet, and were about to leave the meeting without pinning these things down.)<\/p>\n<p>I am a pen snob. I cannot stand ballpoint pens. Gel pens slide over paper, making writing smooth and effortless. I make sure to always have a gel pen at hand: not just at my desk at work but also at my desk at home, in the kitchen next to the shopping list, in my handbag etc. At work I tag my pen with my name, so it doesn&#8217;t grow legs and go wandering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settling in at my new job and equipping my desk with the essentials. The computer was the first and most obvious one, but close behind are a good pen and a pad of sticky notes. I am not always able to stick to the GTD method but the one thing I do nearly religiously is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9520,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions\/9520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}