GTD Report: 2-3 months later

After adopting GTD for a few weeks now.  Here are some thoughts and impressions:

• Tasks pile up!    With tasks piling up, even with all filters and tagging, it's still overwhelming.  I found myself using the project list to help me focus on the tasks I need to do.   
  
• Since under GTD I organize stuff on a weekly basis into the reference system, I am more exposed to my organizational structure, and am often reminded of how I organize my stuff.  For some reason, it gives me a little peace of mind.
  
• A lot of time is often spent on processing.   The bottleneck is naturally the "collect" phrase.  So the idea is collect less - really think if something is worth collecting before you collect.  Also, bypass the collect pool and process certain items immediately so that the collect pool doesn't grow.  
  

Some better tools I would have:

• Notes and todos live in separate places.  Todos live in Things and notes (i.e. Word files) live in the file system.  Really wish there was a way have a way to view them all in one location.
  

That's all for now and thanks for reading!