Spring Cleaning (#29 & #30)

I'm now down from over 2600 emails in my inbox to 1700. That's not counting the ones in the folders (many of which I deleted completely). Ugh! This is worse than cleaning out my closets and file cabinets. I'm pretty good at deleting advertisements, spam and crazy urban legends. Speaking of Urban legends, I drive some of my relatives crazy when they send out those weepy "please help me I have five minutes to live and need your undiscarded toe nails" or something like that. I quickly send everyone the link to the legend on Snopes. Is that terrible?


I need to practice using YouSendIt to send to files to people. I haven't had trouble downloading files lately but you never know. It's something I might want share with my friends who like to send humongous files. Oh well, they will remain my friends.

Spring Cleaning (#28)

I have been working on and off in April trying to clean up the inbox in Outlook and delete old files on my computer. I read the GTD (Getting Things Done) article. The article gave guidelines for managing tasks. The guidelines were similar to other articles I have read on organizing. The guidelines are not hard to do but time consuming. Also it is easy to get off track and start stockpiling things again.

As far as tools for organization,I already have a PDA but I looked at the online calendars anyway. Good thing I did. I had forgotten that I had a link to the YALSA Google calendar until I clicked on the link while I was logged in iGoogle. I think the Google calendar is a great way for a large organization to remind its members about events. "Remember the Milk" was interesting but I don't want log onto a computer to make a shopping list or any other to-do list. Good thing you can synchronize with Windows Mobile. I'll keep it in mind just in case it may be useful one day.