[watch "Corralling Unruly Receipts on YouTube; 1:54 of your life] This week’s video installment features a verrrrry old trick I use to keep all of my credit card receipts in one spot, but as I mention in the video, hey, it occurred to me once out of nowhere; maybe it hasn’t occurred to everyone yet. [...]
organizing
I wiped almost a thousand people from my life today in less than two hours. To be fair, many of them were ‘bots, duplicates and other sync-rot from Google Contacts and Address Book. But a fair number were people, actual human beings, whom I’ve met along the way, one way or another, and either lost [...]
I’ve somewhat neglected the removal of digital clutter thus far in my quest, as I’m home amongst the physical stuff for now and will be removed from it for 2+ weeks while I’m on the road. I did take some putter-y, relaxation time to declutter my music files over the past weekend, though, and as [...]
I suppose there are small business owners and solopreneurs and plain old freelancers out there who never find themselves with too little time or too much stress, but I’ve met a lot more of the other kind. Most of us seem to spend most of our time running from fire to fire, an all-too-recognizable analogy, [...]
I spent yesterday getting coached into organization by one phenomenal couple of personal productivity experts. It was everything I’d hoped for. And nothing I expected. (Or, shall I say, feared.) What I feared, and you can see this coming, if you’ve thought it through, is that I didn’t clean up enough for the cleaning lady. [...]
I’ve been a dork all my life, but I’m still just barely a geek. I love the toys (DVR, nano, anything from Adobe); I fear the code. My boyfriend, a.k.a. “The BF”, who has about 20 extra computing years on me (but is a year younger, damn him) also likes the toys but is very, [...]
