To Do Lists, continued :-)

Today I was reminded of the list of todo lists when somebody posted asking for ways to help a college student with very basic organizing. So... I shared that list (or I'm about to - unless, of course, I forget). I share it though, with the caveat - you gotta integrate it... the time to learn to use it is BEFORE college... and then there has to be some kind of support - a daily email to remind him to check it... then every other day...??

Then, rather than ramble on for another page, I referred to this blog, so here are the ramblings!

I still miss meetings. Missed a pretty important one this week, and everybody else is simply too busy to run around the whole blooming campus and find me (tomorrow that will change when we move to the wing where everybody else is). I have a calendar but I have been unsuccessful in devloping the habit of checking it. They say it takes 21 days to develop a habit; I can adapt that to say that if I've tried to develop the habit 21 times, it's probably hopeless. I'm on about the 6th attempt.
The post-it notes on my computer work better but making the notes is inconsistent. The good thing is that it's not like I *have* to be consistent - there's no cumulative test :-)

Post it notes don't do it all, though.

Yesterday I took real post-it notes and put them on the front folder of a big Trapper-Keeper, which also has these maps that I have PROMISED to get back to the man who met me at the library and loaned them to me, not knowing my execrable reputation with Pieces of Paper. My plan is to finish my project with them in two weeks ... and to find a way to make electronic versions of them, somehow so that if (when :-)) I forgot something and need them again, I can do that. I'm very grateful to the man (and any higher powers involved that engineered this connection) because it *does* put a neat deadline on the project the maps are for.

The Trapper Keeper is my attempt to sort the assorted "Pots on the Fire" so that I can have a mental list of, say, five Big Things that are happening and roll through them in my mind to try to keep them from falling off the back of the stove and rotting there forever. (Boy, do I *hate* cleaning out my desk and finding the painfully important things that never got where they needed to be. I get to do that tomorrow. At least it's the equivalent of Friday on our summer schedule and I can go for a long ride afterward. If all I find are the misplaced chocolates, I'll post some dancing Snoopy(TM) dogs.)