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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If things are not put into my phone/computer calendar they do not happen.
Yep. I've even started booking appointments for myself to do things. I've got "pack suitcase" on my calendar tonight, because I keep losing track of Easter. I also use lists on a daily basis. Man, I was such a failboat before I had the option to manage my life electronically.
My sister laughed at me last week when she picked up my ipad while we were getting ready for the Blackhawks game and an alert popped up that said "Dranking: 15 minutes overdue"
Right? Why I was a relatively early adopter of PDAs: I need that external brain.
ETA: That is an awesome alert.
I'm still on pencil and paper. I love my lists, and my datebook.
Man, I was such a failboat before I had the option to manage my life electronically.
I used paper back in the day, but I love my pop up reminders and text and so forth. Need that.
I am as one with Tim, at least in this aspect: I also have a paper calendar hanging in the kitchen, but it doesn't help if I don't look at it. I would really benefit from having it all electronic, but I haven't been able to make that happen, somehow.
I tried with paper, but I ended up with notes to myself on scraps of paper all over the place that never were right in front of me when I needed to be reminded of whatever it was I was supposed to do. Even Dayplanners and whatnot I had a tough time with.
A recent New Yorker cartoon came pretty close to the truth on electronic schedules, at least for me:
I think I've mentioned here that a couple of years ago I found a paper to-do list from 1989 and noticed that there were only two tasks I still hadn't completed. I came in over the weekend for a few weeks and finished both them. On the next Monday morning I strutted up and down the hallway bragging "I've completely finished the 80's!!!"
But Outlook never forgets and you can't loose it in the back of a file drawer like a paper list, so it is easy to see that the 90's will be a harder problem to complete. There are still 27 tasks outstanding, mostly analytic techniques I promised to learn and papers or grants I promised to write. I'm thinking that by 2024 I should be pretty close.
Oh, well, yes, I have come to accept that some days my To Do list is just organizing all the things that I'm going to ignore. But at least they are organized.