Organising the organisers

Posted by Graham Rhind
Apr 3, 2007 at 08:50 AM

One of the problems I’ve been having is my personal inability to organise my organisers.

For example. I read a suggestion that software downloads could be embedded within Surfulator, with notes and a website link, so that the files could be easily found for reinstallation. Great idea! So I put all my downloads into Surfulator, forget them, and months later realise that I’ve done nothing to keep that database up to date.

Similarly, I use UltraRecall to create a complete customer view - contact details, website, documents, e-mails and buying history in one database. But as UR doesn’t synchronise automatically (I think), then I need to import and synchronise new stuff. And I don’t - I just don’t think to do it.

This is partly due to the constant movement between programs. I start something in Surfulator or Whizfolders, and then realise it could be done also in UR, or vice versa, so my data and my attention become dissipated.

Until something becomes routine, the only way I can currently organise my organising is by adding numerous tasks to Outlook (the only program guaranteed to always be running) to remind me to synchrnoise this, or update that.

I’m not really as scatter-brained as I describe myself here, but I was wondering if other users have better methods for organising their organising ...

Graham