Moving on to lighter matters. Preservation of your digital files.
If you think because your files are backed up to extra hard-drives and disks you’re good to go for the next hundred years, or even five, think again. … [continued]
time
“You have to prioritize. It’s all a matter of priorities.” How many times have we heard that?
Simple yet profound. … [continued]
The fact that I’ve been waiting over 3 weeks for a new computer is beside the point. Major disruptions always allow us time to mull over where we are and where we’re going and where else we might go instead. … [continued]
There’s the paperwork of the dead and then, there’s the paperwork of the living.
Yesterday I was on a roll with the READ ME files, going into the second hour, just beetling along feeling confident to get through another two hours of other tasks. I had just finished a long document, was in the middle of printing out two pages when my 7-year old printer decided to die. I only print a few pages per year so I don’t know what its problem was all of a sudden. … [continued]
I guess yesterday was Day 5 of the Diary. I don’t really remember yesterday. The Action Machine report says I put in half an hour on the READ ME files, an hour on scanning and an hour on my website. Other than that it’s a bit of a blur. … [continued]
A study of time management immediately segues into health issues. That was such a profound thought in the middle of the night it kept me awake. Profound thoughts can be bad for my health. … [continued]
By the end of Day 2 I’d come to a different idea about setting up my timers. Having one for ‘maintenance’ is too distracting. I don’t need to be reminded about checking email, logging into my various accounts, upgrades, updates, data backup, etc. They’re already like breathing. … [continued]
I got up late and did not make a list before I started my day. That was a mistake. Just winging it, this is what happened: … [continued]
I set a variety of small maintenance tasks on their own timers, decided that was too complicated and lumped them all into one called Maintenance. I’m testing this at 1 hour/day: email, logging into various accounts, data backup.
That’s an hour a day spent just treading water. I’m hoping to lower that. … [continued]
In talking about time management previously, I suggested that you make a list first thing in the morning (or the night before) about what your plans are for that day. Say, rather than get carried away trying to manage endless to-do lists all the way into next month and next year. I’ve tried it every which way. We overstretch and then feel defeated when we can’t keep up. No matter what we do it’s never enough. I speak from decades of experience in overwhelming myself. … [continued]
I’ve often wondered how other people handle it; the hours it takes to research, record, file, surf around to see what everyone else is doing, write a blog, or several of them, keep up a mad social-networking schedule with six hundred and fifty of your new best friends and make a living using a computer as well. … [continued]
While I’ve been not working on my genealogy, I came across something that delights me to no end. A calendar that integrates with my email.
I get around 200 emails a day so I spend a lot of time in there. There being Thunderbird. It was so long ago I don’t remember why I switched from Outlook Express but it works well and I’d never go back. Having a calendar and t0-do list alongside my email is the perfect place for them.
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