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How to Organize Your Life : Organizer for the Home Office

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:33:59 +0000

Some simple advice in video about home office organization, use of a file organizer, etc. No mention of important records retention, such as electronic organizer software, but still pretty good.

Bio: Katrina Cameron is the owner of “Operation Organization” in Los Angeles. She specializes in organizing homes, offices, garages and businesses.

Duration : 0:2:52

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Handy Organizer Software Application for Yahoo! Mail

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:14:59 +0000

Organizer is an application designed specifically for Yahoo! Mail. Organizer runs right inside your Yahoo! Mail account and automatically finds all of the messages that aren’t from real people. It organizes them into folders so that you can read them on your own timetable. It’s like your own personal assistant! Once you have installed this electronic organizer, it keeps your organized automatically by moving these lower priority messages out of the way. The messages are moved into a handful of folders with names like “Shopping”, “News” and “Travel”. In addition, opening Organizer will show you your messages grouped by sender. All of your Amazon messages are grouped together. All of your Facebook notifications are grouped together. This makes it easy to find the most recent newsletter from your favorite online store, for example.

Duration : 0:2:3

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Personal Organizer for Records and Files

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:10:59 +0000

Nice lady Shirley M Green talks about reasons to have a Personal Records Organizer, including so loved ones have the proper electronic records and other organizer info if needed.

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2 Most Important Elements in Using an Electronic Organizer

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:59 +0000

Folded up lists and yellow sticky-notes go the way of the dinosaur when an electronic organizer is utilized. The key to using an electronic organizer is that ALL of the information that you need to have on-hand and accessible is in a single place. Let’s face it, even when we bother to make a written list of tasks, daily priorities, or activities, these are often left in cars, pockets, and misplaced in a multitude of other places never to be found again. Why bother when personal organizer software is now so readily available and easy to use?

But even with the most feature-rich of software, what matters most is how you use it. Everybody’s system is going to be specific to them- almost like a fingerprint.

What and how you remember things and keep organized is very personal, so understanding exactly what your own system is, and then following that system is the most important thing. For instance, when you have a new to-do, it goes here. When there is a new appointment it goes here, a new phone number here, an idea here, and a new account or password here.

Once your electronic organizer system is in place, think to yourself, “What would happen if I lost my organizer?” Pretty sad thought, huh? Well, hopefully you would be able to access your data back-up, which is the second most important thing to having a system. Printing out your information is very poor form of backing up, but better than nothing. It would mean re-entering all of your information into a new personal organizer, which is also a distressing thought. Any good electronic organizer software nowadays has a method of backing up the data. This may mean needing to purchase a new device of the same model in order to reload your data, but some form of backup absolutely needs to done. When possible, backup to a CSV (comma separated value) file. These can be opened in spreadsheet software (like Microsoft Excel), manipulated, and often uploaded to another organizer software.

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Evolution of the Electronic Organizer

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:54:59 +0000

Although some may reminisce about the days when Day Planners and Franklin Planners ruled (sometimes the simplicity was nice), those days seem to be long gone. While physically writing in a journal vs. typing on a keypad may have some advantages, there are just too many drawbacks to book-style organizers, including: the requirement to purchase additional calendar pages; not always having prior engagements at one’s fingertips; and the dreaded loss of the planner. No backup!

Thankfully, electronic organizers solve the aforementioned concerns (given enough memory is purchased). Let’s take a look at how electronic organizers have progressed:

1988: Sharp released its first Wizard. Measuring about 7” x 6” x 3”, it was not quite “pocket” sized. The Wizard smartly was capable of connection to both Windows and Mac. Functionality included a memo pad, calendar with scheduling and alarms.

1997: The PalmPilot…Such a heralded device that the name is still sometimes used ubiquitously with the term electronic organizer. This device boasted significant memory, easy synchronization to computer, and a size (4.7” x 3.1” x .7”) that actually could fit in one’s pocket (or palm!).

2002: The long awaited addition to the PalmPilot was phone functionality. One such electronic organizer / phone was made by Samsung. A stylus was required for most of the uses and although the phone worked well, the size was a bit too large for easily fitting in jeans pockets day in and out and the “pull” style email was not quite effortless enough.

Also in 2002, the first BlackBerry smartphone was introduced. The BlackBerry had the distinct advantage of effortless “push” email support, and this advantage in-part continues to this day.

2007: The iPhone. The ease-of-use, fun factor, and slim design that had long been desired had finally arrived. In addition, slick software, and the ability for others to develop “apps” revolutionized the electronic organizer.

2008: With the ease that all can now stores countless contact records, appointments, email messages, and pictures, our lives can now be in our pockets for the most part. Easily accessible electronic information is both convenient to the user…and the criminals. ID theft continues to be a large issue for the public, costing society billions of dollars annually. Securing important personal records took a turn in 2008 with the invention of Personal Pocket Safe. This little device connects to computers via USB ports and launches an imbedded personal organizer software application to record and collect the most important personal records. The data is secured with a USB lock pad on the USB drive itself and does not permit any sort of hacking attempt.

2009: Most recently the Linux-based Nuvifone was launched, combining a complete navigation/gps system integrated with phone and camera. Although this may not technically be an “electronic organizer”, it sheds some light on where the electronic organizer will be tomorrow.

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