Life

The cover of the Independant was rather amusing on Friday:

edit: have just thought, wouldn’t it be good if paper front pages were always like this? It would be much easier to decide whether or not to buy the thing…

Been doing a fair amount of reading today about organisation and suchlike, both personally and for at work. Here’s some of the stuff I have come across.

Moleskine notebooks – these seem cool, if pricey. Loads of links about them here.

43 Folders – this seems to crop up all over the place. Originally based on David Allen‘s book Getting Things Done. It’s a title that has been picked up and used on this blog describing various tricks and stuff to help keep efficient. There’s a Google group too.

[The] title, 43 folders, refers to the number of manila folders required to build a physical tickler file system.

Twelve monthly folders and 31 daily folders are used to build a rotating, one-year “look ahead” system. Maintained daily, it’s a powerful lofi hack for never forgetting to do something (and, consequently, not having to worry about forgetting to do something).

It beats (or at least complements) your electronic calendar in at least one way by letting you store hard-copy items like cards or bills in the folder associated with any day between now and a year from now.

Cornell note-taking system – as described here. This seems like something I really need to take up during meetings:

Well, I’m back at work now, yesterday’s abortive attempt notwithstanding. I’m also obvious back in the mood to keep this thing updated again, no doubt there was wailing and knashing of teeth the world over at my continued silence…

Not much fro me today – sorry. As if anyone is reading anyway! Have the ‘flu and it’s vile.

Okay, probably not the ‘flu. But a very nasty virus. I am at the same time freezing and sweating, which isn’t nice – and probably more than anyone wnated to know.

A Prayer for Owen Meany 58% [ 7 ]
The Great Gatsby 41% [ 5 ]
Alma Cogan 0% [ 0 ]
Status Anxiety 0% [ 0 ]
The Unfortunates 0% [ 0 ]

Total Votes : 12

It’s looking very much like a two-horse race at the moment. Good news because I fancied having a crack at APfOM anyway…honest!