Getting Organized

With just a few weeks until school started (me going into my senior year I am both excited and apprehensive), I am started now to try and get organized. With the number of credits I am taking as well as my level of involvement, I can’t help but think my senior year is going to be a busy one. Pretty much since high school I have been trying to find the perfect way to get and stay organized, and well, I am not very good at it. But I have tried my hand at ALOT of things, and I will tell you what has worked better, and what I am going with now.

Paper Organizer:

Honestly, in this world of tech and cheap PDAs I feel a paper organizer is still great to go with. Really good for use at meetings where you might be taking notes, a nice layout of your week and month, and plenty of room for notes in those places too. Not to mention many come with folders you can put important documents into. This is one method I am going to use this year, as I did last year.

PDA/Smart Phone:

I love them. But I find I never used JUST a PDA. As a techie, of course, I would want more features; not just a calendar, address book, todo list. They are small and compact, most are easy to use. I would just need a little more incentive to carry one around- Such as my HP iPAQ with WiFi, or what I currently have, my Treo 650. This is my phone as well as an organizer, etc. So I carry it around everywhere I go, and as a result, I use it for everything. I also use Outlook, which the Treo syncs with

Computer Organizers:

I find that while something like Outlook is nice, it’s only really useful if you have something else with it. Unless you plan on having your computer with you, on all the time ready to type in appointments, Outlook or the like isn’t your best bet.

Online Organizers:

In the world of Web 2.0, there are an infinite amount of resources for someone to get organized online. However, it poses the same problem as a Computer Organizer- unless you are around a computer all the time with Internet access, you will need something else. Some of you best bets, however, include Google Calendar or HipCal.

I will be going with a paper organizer, as well as my treo. I could rely solely on the treo, but I suppose I am kind of old fashioned for a techie. I just like the feel of the paper organizer and find it a little easier to use at times. Well, I wasn’t really planning on making this a series, but this post was getting long, so Next time I will talk about tasks/todo lists. Later!