Comments on: How to Never Forget Anything Again

By: Roger ost

Roger ost — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:57:47 +0000

This is great! I’m getting Evernote right now. -Roger Ost

By: Shanya Almafeta

Shanya Almafeta — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:51:00 +0000

A note on text files: I originally did that. But that quickly blossomed to about 1.1 gigabytes of text files, as I regularly generated 1-5MB of text per day. And alas, Vista’s tagging doesn’t work as well as it could (it hardly works at all).

So I installed a wiki on my machine. A wiki running on localhost is fairly simple to set up, and it’s like a text editor on crack; I can categorize all my doodles, people’s info, etc., and each page can be in multiple categories and fairly simply link to others. It’s hardly harder than Notepad, and when I’m at home, I can access my notes from anywhere on the network without having to set up complex network sharing.

My first computer running a wiki, I set up IIS and OpenWiki by myself, just so I could legitimately say I had practical experience with IIS and wiki software. On every computer after (or when I’m asked to install a wiki on someone else’s computer), there’s software packages available like BitNami that make installing and maintaining a one-computer wiki dead simple.

The only downside is that it’s harder to back up, but there’s bound to be a workaround for that too.

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:25:10 +0000

I’ve recently released a similar program capable of tracking virtually any personal and data (the url is assigned to my name above). It is build on the concept of sections, items and properties; you might wish to include it into your review.

Best wishes,

Andrew

By: Adel Antado

Adel Antado — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:02:44 +0000

I use an At-a-Glance paper calendar with daily vertical lines. Then I mastered the unbreakable habit of:

1. jotting down in an available time/date every thing I must do or go to with file numbers, phonenumbers, addresses and the like that is relevant to the activity.

2. looking at my calendar every day to see what I had to do and then do it.

The advantage is that this method will survive a computer crash or palm pilot failure and the activites to be accomplished are always on time (usually finished early). Moreover, I can’t over book and, most importantly, I don’t have to remember anything. All I have to do is look at my calendar.

Sorry about not using the latest innovation and software to replace something which only requires discipline and habit.