Thing 14: Personal Information Management

Your Tasks

1.       Set up a couple of notebooks in Evernote. Think of some projects you are or might or would like to work on. Find some online content to put into your notebook as notes, and add in some annotations of your own. Define some tags that might help you find the content at a later date. In other words: try it out!

I set up two notebooks in Evernote - one for environmental events and one for children's events. I created two notes, one on hillwalking and another on Leave no Trace which I moved to the environmental events notebook & I tagged the notes with relevant tags - walking; mountains; adults; litter; children's. I created another note on children's illustrators and moved it to the children's events notebook. I tagged the note with Bologna & Illustrations. 

I'm always picking up event ideas when I'm reading online and offline. I note these on scraps of paper, keep fliers and articles, and create notes and reminders on my phone or e-mail links to my work e-mail. I have created a number of paper folders divide by subject topic of all the paper scraps, and it has been a good intention of mine to include them all on a spreadsheet sometime, so I can refer to it for event ideas. I think I might try Evernote for these instead. 

2.       Try out two of the three smaller tools, from Pocket, Remember the Milk and/or Feedly. Do either of them seem like something you would use? Do they seem too limited in their functionality? Is there a way you can make them work together?

I tried out Pocket and Remember the Milk. Neither of them seem like something I'd use.
Personally, in terms of time management, I believe less is more.
If I find an article that is valuable and interesting, I read it, there and then. If I don't have time to read it, or I don't judge it useful enough to make time to read it now, then I don't devalue my time later or expect my time latter is of less value or the article is of greater value at a later time, so I feel the imperative to read it later.
Similarly, in the time it would take me to figure out how to use Remember the Milk, I would have gone out and bought a cow and milked it! I think of the Nike logo, just do it, and not set up a whole task list to remind yourself to procrastinate about it.

I do use task lists on MS Outlook and find them useful. I've tried Evernote and I've outlined above how that might be useful to manage events ideas.