Keeping life organized is a challenge for me. I've tried lots of systems over the years. I thought I'd met my perfect match in PDAs, but the teeny screens, cumbersome software and data entry and battery life left me longing for paper. So while I keep my organization neat on my computers (office and home), paper is my traveling companion. I maintain calendars and contacts in Thunderbird (at home) and Outlook (at the office) but maintain them manually based on the calendar I print once weekly and add appointments to by hand. My to-do list is a word document with special sections for Target and grocery store shopping lists. Reminders are a shared task between my phone and computers and most updating is done manually. Since I have a relatively small amount of data, it works well for me. But of course, I'm always open to change.
How do you organize?~ tip monkies
~ 43 folders
~ life hacker
~ organized home
Thank you for the link to the tofu recipe! It sounds great!
Happy belated birthday and blog birthday! Yay!
I used to use Outlook like mad at the office, but since my home is now my office, it's paper calendars and white board lists/calendars all the way. (Monkey has gotten me the electronic organizers and even a PDA…but I've been no good at keeping them updated, so I depend on manual methods)
I could use a bit of a kick in the pants.
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I use spreadsheets like crazy. For things at home, though I also just use a calender and planner. I also use a Yahoo calender for email reminders of birthdays, appointments and such.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the organized home link. I REALLY need that right now.