Spring Cleaning #30

I went through the files on the drives that I knew would be ok for me to mess around with or delete, which means the ones with my name on them. I created some new folders to better organize the files, which makes the main folder look nice and neat. I did find some really old stuff in the z: drive that I must have put in there. Most of this I just deleted. Anything that looked current was moved into a nice little folder. Or just left in the "open." I really didn't have much on the z: drive. Most of what I created over the years is in the Children's services folder on the p: drive. And I didn't think I should go through that and rearrange or delete stuff. I don't know what is or isn't being used. That's what I did with my stuff. Now, I need to do this on my home computer.

Spring Cleaning #29, Email

Ok, I know that I keep way too much email. I knew this before I started to delete the old. I have spent quite a bit of time getting the inbox down to 200 emails. I am stopping for now, because my head hurts. I will get around to deleting the others that I know I should get rid of. For future emails I will try to get through them more quckly by moving them to the trash or acting on them if need be. I'll try to keep forwarding those I want to keep to a gmail account that I had set up a while back just to keep a backup of this account. I don't want to move the listservs that I'm on to personal accounts, because I know I won't read them at all then. But I don't always read them right away. I usually save them for a later time and then go through them. If I don't read them within a day or two, though, I then just delete them. I will try to keep up with my email for the future and hopefully it won't get as full as it was, over 60% full.

Spring Cleaning #28

I usually use Google calendar to keep track of things, but this is if I remember to add the information to the calendar. The GTD method could work for me, if I could remember to do the steps to keep organized and wrote things down somewhere. I probaby should keep a to do list for home, since that's the place I tend to forget what I need to do first and always forget to do. The system may help keep organized at home. We'll see.