Journal Entry 1 by lilifin from Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Wednesday, July 23, 2008

A very good book on how to organize yourself and your tasks more efficiently. I quite like the idea and try to use the system regularly.

Will travel as a bookring with the following participants (please keep it travelling and don't keep it for more than 4 weeks):

knittingcat (Germany)
poppy17 (Germany)
haley79 (Germany, shipping intl)
quak (Germany, shipping intl)
Marketing-Maus (Germany, shipping intl)
coco7 (Germany, shipping intl)
tinkaday (Germany, shipping intl)
Urfin (Germany)

..and back to me please! 

Journal Entry 2 by lilifin at Postal Release, Mailed to another bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Released 3 yrs ago (7/23/2008 UTC) at Postal Release, Mailed to another bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases

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on its way to knittingcat 

Journal Entry 3 by knittingcat on Saturday, August 02, 2008

Arrived 3 days ago - sorry I didn't write the JE any earlier. The reading will take longer than I expected. Will need to speed up a bit, so I can pass it on to Poppy17 on Aug 23rd :) 

Journal Entry 4 by poppy17 from Angelbachtal, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Sunday, August 31, 2008

Thanks for "delivering" the book directly to my house yesterday, knittingcat!
Seems to be an extremely interesting and useful book! Hope it won't take too long finishing it, but this is one of the books you cannot read in one go... 

Journal Entry 5 by knittingcat on Sunday, August 31, 2008

Aug 30rd: passed it over to poppy17. I found it a bit difficult to read, but got some interesting ideas that I will give a try. I didn't make it through the whole book so and will read the rest of it in a German copy.

What I like best about the book? The 2-minute-rule. Whatever you can do in 2 minutes, just do it instead of procrastinating and free your head and mind of the pending task and the guilt you might feel about not having done it yet. 

Journal Entry 6 by knittingcat at Angelbachtal, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Sunday, August 31, 2008

Released 3 yrs ago (8/30/2008 UTC) at Angelbachtal, Baden-Württemberg Germany

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Passed it on to poppy17 

Journal Entry 7 by poppy17 from Angelbachtal, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Sunday, August 31, 2008

Just another journal entry to tell that the book is with me now, as knittingcat made the release note after my journal entry. So don't worry, everything is in order now, knittingcat. 

Journal Entry 8 by poppy17 from Angelbachtal, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Got an e-mail from my boss yesterday telling "I am in a bookstore in Boston and have just bought 'Getting Things done' for us". Great! It's really good to have this book at hand to look things up from time to time. Actually, I already knew the 2-minute-rule and I am practising it. It gives a good feeling when you have finished a lot of different things after only one hour in the morning! I also think that the rest of Allen's system could be extremely useful... in case you show a certain discipline and manage to keep all those different lists up-to-date. Maybe this is the weak point of the system... However, I am very motivated now and will at least give it a try.

I am now going to ask haley79 for his/her address....

Edith says thank you to lilifin for organizing this bookring and sorry that I kept the book longer than 4 weeks. 

Journal Entry 9 by haley79 from Bensheim, Hessen Germany on Friday, October 24, 2008

The book arrived today and I am very curious about it and hopeful to receive a couple of sensible new ideas to "get things done".

Thanks for sending, poppy17.