Multiple Inboxes: GTD Heresy?

I am still not fullblown GTD. Still working out exactly what I’ll need to make it work and more importantly keep it working. I think I’m a heretic; I think I need three inboxes. This may be heresy to the GTD purist but I don’t process the different kinds of tasks and inputs in the three different areas of my life in the same time or in the same way.

My work stuff stays at work – I am sure that when I have greater responsibility at work this may change but for now I don’t need to carry all my work lists around with me.  Since we aren’t allowed to install anything at work without a long and painful negotiation with IT I use Vitalist to manage my work tasks. I also use this as a capture tool – any non work open loops which are distracting me get dumped in its inbox to be processed later.

At home I have started using FusionDesk to track all the bits and pieces you need to keep yourself organised.

I also track all my writing and submissions separately in a creaking combination of paper, spreadsheet and grey matter. All writing ideas and snippets from my notebooks (online or paper)  go into their own inbox and get processed um… occasionally.  This will be the next bit of the system to be overhauled! And I should get some submissions out there again so I can track them.

I think this could work. In think this is the only way this will work for me. The three areas are so distinct that it would a waste  to try and shoehorn them into one.  What will hold it together is having a Ubiquitous Capture Device and one hard landscape (calendar). I think I’m going to buy that mini Filofax.