GTD Getting things done.... Collecting thoughts

Each thought has the following attributes

1. Task title and details
   
2. Project: The project to which this thought belongs.
3. Context: Where should I be/ What should I be doing in order to do this task.
4. Owner: Who should be doing this task
5. Deadline: By when should this be done.
6. Captured On: When was this item captured.

Currently I am capturing my thoughts using launchy. Any global hotkey based text capturing tool should do. for e.g. with launchy I hit ALT+Space and capture the highlighted text in the popup window.
This line captures most of the items listed above

1. Task title: Setup lunch with publisher
   
2. Project: default. I could have also written this as book:me to indicate the project name (book)
   
3. Context: @phone
4. Owner: me
5. Deadline: wednesday
6. Captured On: done by the backend script when I press enter.

This is good for informal captures. For a formal capture a spreadsheet or a plain text file may be better. as long as we maintain the format of
:person,task details @context time
we can capture any thought in this system.
Inthe next post we will discuss the next step of classification