Getting Even More Organized
We recently discussed that Organized Blogging is no Easy Task. Catherine then wrote her own Get Organized post which brought up some other great points to consider when trying to get organized! For example, she stresses the importance of a paper organizer and I couldn’t agree more!
If there is anybody out there who loves to use every online tool and application it’s me. I’ve tried everything from Google Calendar to simple to-do lists, from online application to desktop tools. I always figured, since I’m constantly at a computer, I might as well use the darn machine to organize myself rather than distract myself 
Try and try as I may, every online organizer failed for me. There may be people out there who are happy with such tools and use them successfully, but all the ones I used led to me waisting time rather than gaining time. Still, such applications can be especially handy if you set them up to sync with a portable device like a cell phone or PDA! Either way, I’ve since returned to using a simple paper organizer. It is easy to carry around and pull out whenever you have to scribble down a note. It gives you the freedom to easily draw diagrams, sketches or just a simple 2 or 3 word note. Often the simplest solution is best, even if its not the coooooolest!
As I commented on Catherine’s blog, there are two small innovative improvements which could bring paper organizers back to world organizing domination:
First, being able to touch a link you have written with a special blue-tooth enabled pen and then have that link open up on your computer screen would be incredibly awesome. You might have to do more than touch it, perhaps drag over the link as if you were highlighting it so that the pen could read the destination and then open it!
Second, if the first tool above is invented, that means we now have a pen with a special tip that can read words as it passes over them. This means we have completed half the process required to create a copy/paste pen! We could of course now copy from paper and send the text to our computer just like the first tool did with links, but it would be even more awesome if we could also paste on our paper. Perhaps this will require some new sort of digital paper, or perhaps the pen could output the text if we slowly drag it across a page.
Well, thats enough rambling for today, see you all again tomorrow!
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