Keeping Organized

My “life” is everywhere: desktop PC at home, mac laptop, 2 Google accounts (that I use a lot, of course more than two gmail addresses), a main blog, one Remember the Milk account, one delicious account, two Diigo accounts, more wikis than I remember, box.net, and thanks to @cogdog now Dropbox as well. This past fall I got the slap-in-the-face reminder from a tweet that basically said “everything needs to hang from your blog.” Whew...brilliant (and damn it, I already new that, but I needed the reminder).

Today, a colleague asked me how I keep everything “together.” I responded with a “LMAO.” Her question is kicking off my plans for this semester; this semester I’m trying to:

* go paperless (my partner calls me a pack mule)! We’ll see...however, I’m now also using Evernote to try to collaborate materials across my three machines (now including the Blackberry Storm). There are lots of blog posts about crafty ways to use Evernote.
* keep documents updated. Purchasing a larger account for Dropbox has been worth it to keep my two computers synced and then having everything accessible on the web if I’m on a different machine.
* get back to “hanging” everything from my blog. Although I do still like developing wiki sites for workshops, I’m going to start posting “announcements” or “reflections” on workshops I’m going to, or have, taught. I figure this will also start to develop a repository of workshops so when someone asks me what I have/can do...I don’t have to scratch my head anymore.

@shechelle, did that answer some of the question?

January 26 2010 | Posted in