How do you organize your life (ie: keep track of regular schedules, things to do, appointments, etc)??
If you can share with us how you keep track of everything, and more importantly, WHY you do things this way, it would be great.
Here are some things I am doing now:
1. Appointments are kept in iCal, and multiple alarms are set. One is set for around 30 minutes before the appointment/event, and one is set many hours before an event (6 or 10?). That way, even if I forget and ignore the first alarm, I get a 2nd reminder. Everything is "iSunk" (??) to my Sony Ericsson phone via Bluetooth. That way, my mobile sounds the alarms that I set in iCal.
2. To-Do lists, instructions, driving directions and drawn maps, new emails/phone numbers, etc, onto these small pieces of paper and put into my pocket or wallet.
Organizers and Planning Diaries never worked for me. I'd never use them, and despite being A5 size (which is probably around 5"x8" or something), they were still too large for me to carry around all the time. Not every plan comes up when I had my paper scheduler around, and PDAs and Blackberries/iPhones/Smartphones probably wouldn't work because typing will always be worse than writing.
Also, I have ADD and am not a very linear thinking person, and it just didn't work for the way I thought and wrote down ideas.
I have recently decided on using a small (9x14 cm) Moleskine Soft Pocket Notebook with blank pages as my new organizer, list-maker, and general writing pad. I like this for several reasons:
(i) I think I like the idea of having no lined pages, or grid lines. Lines are for people who insist on writing everything the same size, and horizontally. It seems suffocating to write in odd ways and cut through those lines when writing or doing anything with a pen, like writing or drawing maps and such.
(ii) I don't like organizers because my schedule seems rather dynamic. On some days, I need lots of space and want to make To-Do lists (and not in a separate "To-Do List" section), while I don't need much space on other days. So why are the spaces for each day "fixed"?
(iii) I may actually be able to carry this thing everywhere because it's small.
If you can share with us how you keep track of everything, and more importantly, WHY you do things this way, it would be great.
Here are some things I am doing now:
1. Appointments are kept in iCal, and multiple alarms are set. One is set for around 30 minutes before the appointment/event, and one is set many hours before an event (6 or 10?). That way, even if I forget and ignore the first alarm, I get a 2nd reminder. Everything is "iSunk" (??) to my Sony Ericsson phone via Bluetooth. That way, my mobile sounds the alarms that I set in iCal.
2. To-Do lists, instructions, driving directions and drawn maps, new emails/phone numbers, etc, onto these small pieces of paper and put into my pocket or wallet.
Organizers and Planning Diaries never worked for me. I'd never use them, and despite being A5 size (which is probably around 5"x8" or something), they were still too large for me to carry around all the time. Not every plan comes up when I had my paper scheduler around, and PDAs and Blackberries/iPhones/Smartphones probably wouldn't work because typing will always be worse than writing.
Also, I have ADD and am not a very linear thinking person, and it just didn't work for the way I thought and wrote down ideas.
I have recently decided on using a small (9x14 cm) Moleskine Soft Pocket Notebook with blank pages as my new organizer, list-maker, and general writing pad. I like this for several reasons:
(i) I think I like the idea of having no lined pages, or grid lines. Lines are for people who insist on writing everything the same size, and horizontally. It seems suffocating to write in odd ways and cut through those lines when writing or doing anything with a pen, like writing or drawing maps and such.
(ii) I don't like organizers because my schedule seems rather dynamic. On some days, I need lots of space and want to make To-Do lists (and not in a separate "To-Do List" section), while I don't need much space on other days. So why are the spaces for each day "fixed"?
(iii) I may actually be able to carry this thing everywhere because it's small.
