#30 Spring Cleaning--how barbaric!

After poring through 34 pages of e-mail, the P&Z drives were child's play. There was actually a picture from way back in early June of 2005 (less than a month after I started this job) I couldn't bear to get rid of, but hadn't previously thought to move over to flickr. It's so weird though, looking over these barren pages of emails and folders that were once so full, like Conan the Librarian looking over the barren Tech-Sass deserts, so different from the lush forests of the Frigid Northlands.

#29 Email is oh-so-barbarian

Okay, I actually have folders now. And trying to sort through and weed 34 pages seemed impossible, but once I got into the gist of it things flowed so smoothly. So now I'm down to 4 emails (plus folders). Time will tell if I actually end up missing anything I got rid of or if the new organization scheme helps or hurts matters at all.

Address book? I don't have an address book. Not online anyway. I actually created a test address to make sure there wasn't something that I was just missing. Anyhoo...

I guess my current plan ammounts to 'look how clean this is. Isn't that nice? And without a daunting 34 up there it actually shouldn't be too difficult to stay on top of things'. Of course, my desk has had moments of cleanliness too, so we'll see how well that works.

Oh, and because of the deplorable lack of barbarism in this post, um, argh!

#28. Out of the iceburg: GTD

Suddenly, Conan was frozen in an iceburg for millions of years. Or maybe just a few months. In any case, it was a new generation (and 28 time units into that generation). So much had changed in the significant time he was gone, there was so much new information to process. He needed to get organized, because of course getting organized is very popular in the lung of the nation.

So I looked over the GTD wikipedia page, and the concept seemed interesting if complex. Probably with practice it will/would start to become second nature. I of course had to check out 'remember the milk' because the name was cool--important priorities here--and I entered 'make a blog post' as a goal. ...am planning to use it more in conjunction with experimenting with the GTD method. Am noting the irony that it seems like I have too much to do to get organized which should actually lighten that burden. RTM seems to very much lend itself to the GTD philosophy--directly so, so hopefully the two will act as crutches for each other and together I can make my way through the tempest of disorder and stand steady at the eye of the storm. Or something like that.