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Originally Posted by Sparrow
 What time do you get up?? |
Not all that early, really. However, anything that I can automate to happen while I sleep, I automate. I usually get up at 8:00 am. I do chores (feed cats, walk and feed the dogs, start the laundry) until 10:00 am, and then grab some breakfast. I usually start doing work in the office at 10:30 or so (because it's 8:30 California time and people are just starting to get into the office). I knock off for lunch about 2:00 or 3:00, do a few additional chores during lunch, then around 5:00 pm feed the cats, clean out the litter boxes, start another load of laundry. By 6:00 pm I am usually back at work doing either office stuff or graphics stuff, or computer repair stuff, which winds up around 10:00 pm at which time I take my meds and settle down to read for an hour or two. It varies a bit depending on if I have to go into town for anything (which is a long process and is better left to having most of the day free), or if there is an emergency of some sort. Most nights I get a good 8 hours of sleep.
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Originally Posted by Verencat
Ricky, how did you know? Toodledo is the thing I need! Organizing is something I just can't do, this should help a lot! I now have an account and will fill it up with such a list...! I could really go for both the ziploc and the Space bag jumbo cubes, but I'm looking for a job so I don't want to splurge on anything. I'll keep those in mind though!
I wish you were there too! when I read the list of things you did yesterday I got a little teary from exhaustion... You are a saint and a model!  |
Toodledo is a great program. I create a new folder for each project (like "Housework"), then one task under Housework is "Daily Chores" ... which (of course) is set to repeat daily. Then I have the eight subtasks that I have to do each day set at the time I need to do them:
8:00 - 8:15 feed the cats/start a load of laundry
8:15 - 9:00 walk the dogs
9:00 - 9:15 feed the dogs and clean the kennel
9:15 - 9:30 put wash load in dryer, start new load of laundry/do breakfast dishes
5:00 - 5:15 give the dogs their afternoon treat
5:15 - 5:30 feed the cats
5:30 - 6:00 clean out litterboxes
6:00 - 6:15 start load of litter pads
Then, I add new folders for each client, or each specific project, such as "Paint the Pantry" .... and then break that down in to each separate wall, and subtasks ("mask", "paint", "clean up"). I don't always set down a specific time to start those, just an estimate of how much time I think it will take me to do the thing.
The nice thing about Toodledo is that if you have some free time, you can tell the program how much time you have, and it will suggest things that you could be doing that would fit into that slot of time.
You can prioritize and move stuff around to your heart's content, and the sync is very fast. You can also set up alarms to remind you of certain items. It is .... hands down .... the best organizer program out there (once you decide how you want it to work for you ... I'll admit, it took me a little time to realize that having lots of folders (projects) was not a bad thing. It meant that I could organize each project in more detail. When I'm done with a project, I just delete the folder.
About the only thing that they could add to make me like this program any more would be the ability to "hide" folders when I am done with them, or archive them, so I could keep the data without having to see the folder. But, that's a minor quibble.