GTD & Organization Update

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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