#30 Here, There and Everywhere

I have posted something to the S:drive and those things disappeared in the great "Suprise" drive clean-up" that had never happened before and so we never expected it to ever happen and then it did. Totally our fault, but ... we are still bitter. So I never use the S: drive without extreme suspicion and get things off it lickety-split before something evil can happen.

As for the P:drive, I just reorganized it a couple of weeks ago and totally flummoxed my staff, since I renamed their folders so they conformed to a system. Ahem, next time I may mention that I'm doing that in advance. We are just now getting our photos on the P: drive for editing before being sent to Flickr. Personal photos better not be on it or heads will roll. (Not to worry, work photos are hard enough to get on the computer, so personal photos are most unlikely.) And I don't even know how to get my photos off my camera phone, much less onto the P: drive.

Now for the Z:drive. And now for my folders on the Z:drive. Yes, those folders. To paraphrase the late great Charlton Heston, "You'll get those folders when you pry them from my cold dead hands." Uh, just kidding. But I am slowly examining them and deleting them when I really sure I don't need them anymore. Just call me a turtle on this one.

#29 Rolling the Stone up the Sisyphean Email Hill

Okay, so I've stuffed stuff into folders the way you clean up the living room by stuffing things in closets before your mother arrives. I'm deathly afraid if I open a folder everything will cascade out all over me. Deletion of old email is something I actually do on a regular basis, since I love the the sensation I get when hitting delete for all the stuff in trash. I'd moved most personal emails to a private email address a while back when the whole county email flap was ongoing, even though I am not having an affair with anyone at the moment. The rest are being trashed whenever I find them lurking in my closets, ah "folders."

Actually, the most insidious email is work-related email lists, which I always mean to read but usually are at the end of my to-do priority list with all that professional enhancement stuff. I guess I need to either read it or just get off any list I don't feel compelled to keep up on, but I'm still vacillating over that. Maybe I'll just delete the previous month of posts at the beginning of each month so it never gets to the totally daunting level. I always want to keep up professionally, but it always takes a back seat to what's pressing today. But that's another topic.

# 28 Git' R Done!

I'm afraid I spent as much time flipping back and forth between all the information stuff on the web about David Allen's system as I have attempting to implement using any particular system. I did manage to attach "Remember the Milk" to my Google calendar and talk someone at Network Services into uploading a sync program so my Outlook calendar can sync with my Google calendar. (This makes me ridiculously happy since maintaining two separate calendars has just meant that I maintained neither completely. And now I can even look at it on my phone! What this means to the fate of my ability to organize remains to be seen.) So I have added a to do list to something I look at every day.

The thought of maintaining 43 folders of anything still seems daunting, but I can see posting the workflow flowchart as a memory aide to use the two minute rule to do, defer or trash things. I think. Maybe. First I'll probably investigate every variation on the system to find "just the right one." Ahem.