Sometimes … well, ok, most of the time … my mind is ticking away on 20 to 30 different plans, problems, ideas and possible solutions. I don’t know how a mind can handle that simultaneously but mine does. If another useful thought whizzes by I have to snatch it in a nano-second or it’s gone. If this sounds familiar, enter the lowly post-it note.

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Before there was Passage Express I could not imagine organizing so many files and types of files for presentation.

Then, in the middle of the night it came to me. I would create Descendants Book reports in pdf and attach other files in the margin. This way a reader could take a side-trip to look at maps, photos, slideshows, related stories, or even listen to me talk, and then come back to the main body of work without getting lost.

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We all know the old Windows clipboard routine. Copy, paste, copy, paste. Copy one item, paste it somewhere else, then go back for the next one.

A clipboard extender can carry multiple clips and save you having to carry them from place to place one at a time. You can copy, copy, copy all day long and the clips live in the clipboard extender forever unless you delete them, or enough time passes.

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I’m sure anyone who’s editing photos already has their favorite photo editor. Personally, I can’t live without Adobe Element’s healing brush so that’s it for me. I can walk right past an unwashed person on the sidewalk, but if I see a scratch on an old photograph I have to stop and fix it.

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This is another one of those very simple things that I only noticed when I was desperate. If you’re needing to search web pages or, say, verify a long list of names against one of those online family charts that scrolls on forever, this is a very handy thing to use.

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