MakeUseOf.com: "In addition to offering a wealth of information, the internet also provides us with a ton of tools. Are you taking full advantage of them? For example, how well do you manage your life? Are you well organized, do you easily remember birthdays, deadlines and appointments?
Should you struggle with these tasks, don’t worry, most of us are. Fortunately, you are free to change things and make your life a little easier. Here is what you can do to organize your life and reduce the amount of things you have to remember"
8 comments:
While manageing your time on line is convenent and easy it also has some draw backs. Like the article says if you don't have something that can sync with your computer then pen and paper and the best tools to use. Not to mention that computers can fail and leave you depending on something that can't be axcessed. I find pencil and paper to work better because its always with you no matter what and its helps you to remember because you physical wrote it down.
This website seems very helpful, and there are definitely certain time management tools worth checking out. In the long run, though, everybody needs to come up with a time management system that works well for them individually. Whether that is a convenient online resource, or an actual written note to themselves, people need to experiment with different techniques before they find the method that is right for them.
I agree with Brooke on this one. Everyone needs to figure out what kind of system helps them stay organized. I find a planner in my hand to be the best form of management for me. Others use calendars on their walls and file systems. I don't know many people who would use a computer program to help them organize their life. I barely even use the sticky notes on my Macbook!
So I already use gmail, google calendar, and remember the milk, along with my itouch, smart phone, and palm pilot, and I'm still not that organized. The fact is that technology is only as useful as people make it. You must integrate these tools into your daily life as the article suggests, for them to be remotely useful.
I have a bunch of friends who love Remember the Milk and other organizational websites like it but I love writing down with a pad and paper everything I need to do. And grocery lists. If I write something down then the act of writing it will make it stick in my brain so I actually end up less in need of looking at the piece of paper in the end anyway.
Plus, even more wonderful than writing things down is the joy of crossing them off!
I use Gmail and Google Calendar synced with my ipod and it works just fine. Calendar saves its most recent version onto your ipod, which is nice for me because I don't have internet at home. I don't really use the mail function of my ipod because frankly, I don't want to check my email that often. That said I still carry a moleskin in my back pocket. It's durable, it's quick, and it doesn't lose it's warranty when I spill coffee on it
I know people that use all these applications. Sometimes they work sometimes they don't. I think the key piece of advice here is that you have to give the tools time to work and really just dedicate yourself 100% to using it effectively. I'm in a transition period of lists right now but I think soon I may be utilizing these applications myself.
I am as big of a technology / gadget geek as then next person. But I think this might be getting out of hand. Can't we remember anything any more. I know computers are causing our handwriting to go down the drain. Now our ability to remember to do things is too???
Maybe we are just to busy. We need to slow down, smell the flowers and take a deep breath once in a while. Not that society is going to suddenly slow down. But I do think we have begun to overlook the simple things in life to get something done or get ahead. But we are only perpetuating that problem ourselves.
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