TIL I'm an idiot. I can't stop cackling and cringing at this, this would have saved me so much time and stress over my life. I read the book and the manga, and the manga I like because things are just a lot less threatening in comic book form. Fuck, I just donated GTD after reading the magic of tidying up. Weirdly enough, this actually makes me want to commit to reading it again. I read GTD when I was a freshman in college, and I remember that my big takeaway was to reduce tasks to their under 2 minute essence- I even tried a system out with a physical tray with notecards because my digital solutions for GTD weren't really working for me. I didn't really give GTD my 100% shot, it didn't feel very applicable to me when I was in college and everything was intrinsically interesting to me. =============== An aside, because it just occurred to me that there is a common theme to the self-help books I like and tend to embrace: I tend to choose embrace philosophies that can be potentially self-serving in the moment, all the while glossing over maintenance. (Simple Rules)[https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Rules-Thrive-Complex-World/dp/0544705203] is probably the most egregious example, because I break and selectively forget and make up new rules all the time in my head, and no amount of leaving post-it-notes around can change that. =============== But shit, I'm doing the OS thing right now. I advice you to separate your operating system drive from this file drive, which allows you to do clean installs whenever you want and have everything file where you left it.