Limes with Orange

I'm a list person. I don't know how people manage to make it through their days without a to-do list of some kind. I usually write down my list the night before, so I can go to bed with a head empty of all that prosaic stuff… all the better to dream fantastic dreams. Otherwise I dream of things like leaky roofs, piles of paper attacking me, you know… not the Hollywood blockbusters of entertainment type of dreams.

Anyway, I just discovered this super easy to use downloadable software To-do List application (sorry Mac people… Windows only). It just sits on your desktop or in your system tray and you can check things off or add new things throughout the day. Or you can print it off and take the list with you. And it's so, so easy to use.

At the moment, I use a spiral bound notebook that is essentially a collection of to-do lists. I kind of like being able to flip back and see when I did something or if there's anything I missed. But with this To-do List app, I'm not sure yet whether it keeps any sort of archive (because I doubt it's a feature that many people would care about for something as mundane as a list) but at least you don't have to keep transferring those unfinished projects to a new list. It'll just stay on your list until it's finally done.

So maybe I should just try this program out for the 60 day trial period and see if I can't save a few trees with this digital To-do list.

Labels: computers, odds and ends

Well, my computer died. Kaput. Everything. Lost.

So all the cash I'd stashed away for my "Film Fund" (extra cash for the short film that I'll be working on through my CSIF course this summer) is now invested in my computer. And now I have this lovely new big empty hard drive that was loaded up with software by my friend Russ (aka computer god) but my files? Poof. All gone. (Well, Russ did manage to salvage a handful of files, but they were mostly various versions of my sister's resume... hardly seems fair.)

And now I'm discovering that my poor little memory (my computer memory, not my actual memory... though that doesn't seem to be doing too well these days either)... anyway, my computer memory is insufficient for all these wonderful, powerful new applications. E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g i-s s-o-o-o s-l-o-w. It feels like I'm pushing through a wall of mud whenever I try to do anything. Guess I have to dig deeper than my Film Fund and find a way to upgrade that.

Thank goodness for the stuff I've posted here and the notes and random hard copies of other stuff I'd written. But it hardly seems like enough.

Live. Learn. Then get a DVD drive to back up your life.

Labels: computers