Hi

I'm coming to this thread rather late, but thought i'd just post my view on the UPO/mindmap diary concept.

As an enthusiatic mindmapper, I had to have a look at the UPO; sent off for the brochure, but decided that £300 was a bit steep for what was a very simple system. I took the same route as LindaJeanne and made my own templates in excel, and used it for a good three years (only stopped when I moved to a PDA). LindaJeanne's templates are almost identical to the ones I produced. My only modification was to enlarge the 24hr segment on the daily pages- this gave more space, meaning I could use it not only for my schedule, but to capture thoughts, phonecalls, meeting notes in their 'place in time'. I found using good quality paper in a nice binder made the whole thing feel more like a quality planning system, rather than a flash notebook. I have to say, I miss not using it- after a failed attempt to make a PDA do all the things I wanted it to (mainly, taking & structuring notes in meetings), I'm sorely tempted to revive it (but then what do I do with my LifeDrive...). And it would definitely fit with GTD, no problems.