I always wanted to use the word “ponder” in a blogpost, for obvious Pinky and the Brain reasons… 🙂
But during my time off, I had some encounters with situations in which I thought to myself: “Hmmm…now how would a true blackbelt Lifehacker wrestle himself through these issues?” So instead of trying to find all the answers myself, I turn to the wisdom of the crowd. My valuable readers, can you help me answering these questions?
- I use little 3×5 indexcards in my car to quickly jot down some notes or thoughts. For instance an errand I need, a thought about a client, some music I hear on the radio or an interesting URL on a billboard. These are not always thoughts I need to process as soon as possible but every now and again it does. This is where the problem comes in. I need to find some sort of way to make myself remember to take the indexcards out of the car and into the office or my home. Where I can process them. Since they are between the driver and passenger seat in a little stack, it’s easy to overlook the notecards. And yes, I confess, my mind plays tricks on me sometimes. I have moments where I open up a browser to check a website, but when my browser is fully opened, I forgot what I wanted to do. You can call it short term memory loss, or perhaps there is some sort of medical term for it. But it makes me forget sometimes even the simplest things. Like taking an indexcard out of my car and into my inbox. Any thoughts on how I can help myself remembering this?
- Next up: Losing stuff. Now, The Dave always calls everything around us “Stuff”. The word itself already has a feeling of things you don’t always need to keep. You really have to clean up sometimes and for instance throw out three months of magazines and some old post. But why, for the love of god, WHY!!!! Why is it that three days after you threw out those magazines you haven’t read in 6 months, you absolutely need something you know you read in one of those magazines? Why do you need some information from that one PDF you just digitally shredded from your harddrive and even GetDataBack can’t save it anymore? Is this some sort of universal law or am I the only one who can’t find an equilibrium between saving and deleting “stuff”?
- Very simple last question: What is the best time for you to clean your Inbox? Digital or analog, doesn’t matter. Is it in the morning? During lunch? Evening? And why?
I am very curious how my wise crowd answers these questions!
