Greetings GOGies and GOGlemen,

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The enormity of my scattered notes across all matters has been on my mind lately. Over the years, they accumulate through my travels in time and space. Items such as Excel macros I like, websites articles I wish to review someday, the brand of a chicken cutlet I got at a restaurant that I would like to have one day, the mod recommended for Mass Effect's improved graphics, snippets of scattered thoughts meant to be acted on eventually, etc, etc.

I admit, I haven't really organized them quite well. Items are often stored on text files or on my phone's note app, or in an email to myself. Even some older at in scraps of papers, though I prefer digital when a choice is available due to the ability to do a global search on a word or phrase, but even this ends up falling short at times.

So I thought what better than to ask the great think tank of this forum how each of you organize all of those tiny trivial and not-so-trivial notes that span the multitude of topics and areas in your lives.

TL;DR - What methods and tools (software or other) do you use to organize and use your various small tips/notes/ideas/quotes for your future reference?

Vim.

Honest.

Anything like mod recommendations or recipes I bookmark. I have 3 large folders of bookmarks, and every few months I spend a few hours going through them. I read an article, I download a file, I share with a friend... This works well forr me, because these are things I just want to be able to find when I have time - no urgency or even really importance - just interest...

For actual productivity, I have been using more and more Google calendar, Google Keep (a simpler alternative to Evernote), email (duh).

I run a 12 room bed and breakfast. So, Google Calendar is great. I can see all my bookings for the next month on one page, alongside big events in town, scheduled repairs and other work, plus integrate my personal schedule - dinner guests on Tues, kid's doctor appt Thurs at 1, etc. Plus the calendar can be set to remind me at any advance interval I want to set up.

Keep is great. Make a checklist. Check things off. Share it with someone. My wife can add items to my shopping list while I'm shopping. Also reminder function.

Email. One of the best ways of me being productive is to never let the ball sit in my court for very long. I do email in short bursts a few times a day - answering whatever I can. This either closes the issue at hand, or puts it back in someone else's court.

Also, I use Motorola Connect, so my texts come up on my computer. I read and respond there, where I am ten times as fast with my fingers.

I also send more pictures and less lengthy texts. Whenever I can find a way to do this, it moves the conversation forward much faster.


When I am tired of being productive and organized, I pull out Oblivion and go through the long and leisurely process of finding a couple hundred mods and installing them all and doing all the necessary work to make them compatiblie.

on Windows, [url=http://zim-wiki.org/]Zim on Linux.

Unfortunately I have no good suggestions, I just wanted to say thanks for posting this, as I'm quite curious about this myself and will be following this thread to get some ideas for myself. I have a system for things like my pockets, but that's about as far as my ability to organize goes: left pocket is for phone, right pocket is for keys and a huge, unorganized bundle of folded up papers, which consists of things like notes to take to medical appointments, reminders for the next step I need to take in a video game I keep getting lost in, phone numbers, my crinkled and folded up prescriptions I forgot to take to the pharmacy two months prior, etc... and my computer desk now has one section of flat space pretty much dedicated to being a "discard pile" for notes that are just so old that I realize there is absolutely no sense to carry it around.

It will be good to have some ideas for how people make sense of such things. :)

I have a notepad that I use to jot down notes from working in my garden (fertilizers to use, weather patterns, seed types that do better than others, etc). I also keep a pad handy near my computer in case I need to remember passwords, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

That's about it. Everything I else is stored in the rather large but slightly damaged cerebral cortex that I lug around.

So I've been still researching on an app-- ideally something that is universal and found that CintaNotes (Windows) does work with simplenote.com in some form. This helps in terms of having access to my notes on a phone or Mac.

I kept my eye on CintaNotes and wanted to let those who are interested in knowing that they have a 60% off sale going on for about 24 hours. I'm going to try it out.

CYBERMONDAY2015 - 60% off 1 year PRO license
CMON2015LIFETIME - 60% off Lifetime PRO license

I'm not affiliated with them, but I like their features and figured if anyone else was interested, they could get a good price on this.