It is almost eerie how sometimes, you’ll spend a day or two, thinking about how you need X or Y, going over possible options and rejecting them as too expensive, too time-intensive to work out or simply too inefficient. Recently, my problem has been organising myself, especially the tasks and items needed for my plethora (great word, I know) of new classes (like an idiot, I’ve signed up for 15 credit hours this semester, all of which are computer-based design courses, most in programs I’ve never used). I’ve been really frustrated because, even though I’m normally pretty good at recalling assignments and whatnot, all my classes are taught by the same teacher, so everything seems to be mixing together… I’ll start wondering why I needed a storyboard for my DVD Studio Pro class, for instance (when I, in fact, needed it for my 3D animation class).
Sure, I could write it down, but I am horrid at keeping notes to myself, and carrying anything aroung with me, aside from my iPod and (just recently) my phone, is just abhorant. So a pad of paper is out. A fancy-schmancy Day Planner — or whatever it is Franklin-Covey calls them now — is out (I’ve never been able to keep one of those going). My antique PDA? Not only is that out, it doesn’t even work properly anyway. I had some pie-in-the-sky ideas for keeping track of my ideas, such as a new Treo “smartphone” (way too expensive for me) or getting my own web-based tasks package running.
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