My brother told me I was crazy when I bought a package of 12 or so post-it note pads earlier this year. I'd never use them all. I didn't need anywhere near that many. Slowly, I've scattered these things around the house and now there's always one near when I need it. And believe me, with my scattered brain, I always need to make a list of something to remember.
Now I've hit on another idea. I'd been thinking of getting a bulletin board, but today I realized that if I just stick all my post-it notes on the door I will see them as I leave, and can even grab the appropriate note or notes for whatever excursion I'm making. This is great; two notes so far, going on two hundred I'm sure.
This beats PDAs all to pieces. If I had a PDA I'd spend all my time looking for it. There's literally a post-it pad nearby almost everywhere in the house. I scoff at your high tech solutions! :)
However, every few days, I go through the clutter around my work spots, looking for the gems that don't really add any value to being posted anymore. Phone numbers, appointments way in the future, tasks that I need to do, all get committed to my PDA (various passwords get committed to an app on my PDA, phone numbers go into my PDA, etc.) or my Reminder System I use on my laptop (currently Outlook, but I'm looking for something better).
Eventually, the Post-It Knowledge-base falls over. You get to a point where you can't find anything anymore and some fly off and get thrown away.
The high tech solution is not as good for the quick note, but the low tech solution also has it's limitatations.
Re:PDA/PIMs are complementary to the Post-Its
jdavidb on 2002-10-12T18:49:02
This is more for to-do lists, etc. I, too, have had the problem with scattered bits of info on post-it notes, but usually I go through some similar process of assembling them and discarding them after determining that the information is either committed to memory or a file somewhere.
>...stick all my post-it notes on the door...
I'm guessing you're not married.
