Posts from — May 2005

Went up to the mountains today to place flowers at my grandfather and great grandfather's graves. It took me a bit to find my great grandfather's grave as I didn't attend the burial and wasn't too sure on the exact location. I took fresh flowers as I didn't like the choices of silk flowers.

Evernote updated their beta program today and I like it. Icons for categories, the ability to export my data and even back it up plus a bunch of bug fixes. It even lets me create new categories on the fly and add multiple categories (which they had in the previous version but less usable). Very nice indeed. I'm using it to collect clippings like recipes, pertinent paragraphs, essay, etc. I get a lot of email and sometimes I only need a paragraph and I don't want to wade through a large email with lots of replies to find the specific thing I want. I can copy and paste into Evernote and use its search feature to find it. It is one of my top tools. I could have used it a few years ago.

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I've been working steadily on my quest to organize my life so I can get things done with a minimum of stress and anxiety. I've tried a few toys like Rojo for my RSS(speed issues, but I like the tagging idea and the collation of all my feeds into one list to read), EssentialPIM to see how it compared to Outlook(Not favorably as I wanted categorized to-dos)and GTDTiddlyWiki(Ugghh. Not fun to use in my opinion). Trumba is nice but I messed up so I'm waiting for a way to clear my primary calendar in a few clicks. I have a Moving page set up in Backpack which is nice to have one page with notes, & to-dos for one subject all together.

Outlook is about 50% set up-the basics are in and now I'm adding tasks and reminders when needed.

I read all my mail in GMail now, having moved from Thunderbird when I thought I was going to move and now have less mail in my box becasue I've turned the majority of my email lists in Yahoo Groups to no-mail.

Since I have GDS installed, I'm moving from a rigid hiearchy of folders to having text in My Documents, pictures in My Pictures, and videos in My Videos, archived downloaded program files in one folder regardless of type, and a Downloads folder that serves as a digital inbox for files I get and create.

My physical inbox has receipts for the week to be entered into Money and PearBudget with this week's processing as well. I decided since I had so many things to process I would process one folder or file section a week till done.

I have a bag I'm carrying arouynd now with my writing materials and a few important things and I'll be adding a USB flash drive that will carry digital files I will need everywhere.

I think that's pretty much it for this little update.

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