As I was looking at my previous post about applying GTD to your blogging process, I realized that I had left a good deal of the GTD methods out quite by accident. However, even if I had remembered, it would have made the post a lot bigger then it needed to be, so instead, I’ll dedicate a post to those segments I forgot or barely touched on, as well as go into specifics about the other sections and other things you can do. We’ll start with Reference.

References are those pieces of information that aren’t exactly actions, but still require being recorded. In standard GTD, this would be things like email addresses, phone numbers, and the like. However, since we are among those innovative-yet-disorganized group known as the blogging kind, we’ll need a new way to deal with these references.

As is the way with GTD, your references must rely on tags, or contexts. I touched upon this a bit in the organization section of the last post, but I don’t think that’s enough. There is more to references then just articles, after all. Let’s go through a few cases on how to reference. First, let’s say you were gathering info for a particular website or phone. First, we can go through reviews of the product: @reviews. But, we can also take it further: We can break it down to @positive and @negative. We could even break then into sponsored or not. So in the end, a blog about your product would look like this:

@review @positive @non-sponsored

You can also do similar styles with other types of articles for research:

@interview @creator (Or @spokesperson, @CEO, etc)

@news (@product-centered, @uses)

More stuff coming up! I guess I was onto something with the Getting Things Blogged entry…..