Keeping yourself organized/note taking...

[guids]

I do something similar to EL D, I have a word document that I keep open all the time on my computer, it has a heading with each day of the week, and it is basically a crude daily planner, on the 2nd page is where I jot down the the to do stuff/and notes, then when I cradle the axim to get the notes I made on the road, I cut and paste the 2nd pages' notes to the days that I plan on getting them done.

[Colt McCoy]

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Definitely check out Getting Things Done by David Allen. And Google "Hipster PDA".

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The first answer was perfect. Getting Things Done is a great system.

[kidcolin]

There's a Microsoft program called OneNote. Not sure how expensive it is, but I have it at work. It's essentially a notebook, but with a bunch of options. You can make anything you jot down in it a "list item" and it'll compile all these items across the entire notebook into a single check list. I don't use it nearly as much as I should. Organization is a huge flaw of mine.

[Dids]

I use excel like crazy. It's just what I know and what I'm comfortable with. I have a financial spreadsheet I made, one to track my workouts, one to track menu planning.

I don't really do "to do's" at home, but I use outlook's task function like crazy at work.

[Tron]

Backpack is cool, Ta-Da Lists is made by the same people except it's ONLY to-do lists. It's simplicity is alluring.

P.S. Diablo, do you know the 37signals people!?!?

[Tron]

Oh, and the way I use Ta-Da is that I sit down at the computer before I go to sleep and enter everything I need to or would like to accomplish the next day... I usally wind up entering around 20 items and so far I only average completing like 3 or 4 of them, but that is probably 300-400% more than what I could do otherwise.

[TimM]

When I quit my job, I was worried I would start to miss appointments because it was easy to lose track of the days. I started using Yahoo Calendar to track appointments. You can make it send an email a specified time in advance of any event, and I would leave them unread in my inbox as reminders. I would also print the monthly calendar to keep by my desk, and write in how many hands I played each day. This really freed me up from having to think about these appointments all the time.

[lippy]

I, uh, try to remember everything and have no order at all. I basically never know when I have to do anything, but usually remember just before it has to be done.

Works for me!

[PITTM]

the idea that sounds best to me so far is the whiteboard on the wall idea. Something on my wall right next to my desk with a list of things to do would be fantastic imo.

[kidcolin]

whiteboards rule for a plethora of reasons.