Organizing
I got home after school yesterday to find my mom shredding a bunch of paper and stuff. Apparently, she was an accomplice to a crime and was destroying evidence. (Just kidding.)
We got to talking about organization, then she brought up that one of her coworkers only carries around her driver’s license. My mom ranted that in her purse, she has checks, bills to pay, loose papers, and a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t remember. On top of that, if she brings lunch, that’s another bag to carry. I could see self-realization rearing its head. Once again, I told her about setting up and using a tickler file. (I print labels and make the 43 folders for her later.) This time, I think she’ll give it a shot.
I wrote about streamlining my backpack (part 1, part 2) awhile ago. I’m happy to say that I’m still good. I don’t have to bring any cables anymore. I’m going to buy a messenger bag soon because when I go to work, I basically just have my handful of gadgets, a couple pens, and some index cards.
As for my wallet, I barely have anything. Cash, driver’s license, debit card, student ID, auto insurance card, proximity card for work, and a few stickies for my debit card in occasions where I’m at a restaurant with a group of friends. I do have a Blockbuster card, library cards, a Borders Rewards card, AMC rewards card, Ralph’s Club card, etc. — they’re just in a small inexpensive Five Star Xpanz Zipper Pouch that I keep in the door compartment in my car. I also have more index cards and a spare pen.
Lastly, I have a portable inbox for random scraps of paper/stuff I might come across during the day.
All in all, my mom notices that I don’t that many papers lying around. Shredding/discarding stuff regularly is only a small part of my system. I figured I’d explain myself here — you can take and tweak the system to suit your needs.
What’s in your bag? Can you see where you can change? And finally, read “Zen Pockets” — he explains more stuff.
When I got my Canon PowerShot SD600 Digital Elph, I thought everything was perfect. I was wrong. There’s nothing physically wrong, but from January 5th until today, I had the camera set to 2006 instead of 2007.
What the freak.
At least I caught it before a few months went by. I manually changed all the affected photos on Flickr, but what about the 200+ photos on my hard drive?
So, I ask you - how do I change the “Date Picture Taken” in mass quantities? (I’m using Windows XP.)
[Potato Head has saved some alien toys]
Alien toys: You have saved our lives. We are eternally grateful.
Mr. Potato Head: Will you just leave me alone?
Quote from Toy Story 2 - my weird way of saying thanks in advance if you can help me out…
UPDATE: January 28, 2007 @ 10:40am - I emailed Amit at Photojojo, and he replied really quick. Solution? Jhead! It’s really small, and runs only in command prompt. I just copied it into each of the affected folders, used the -ds extension, then set the correct date in each of the affected folders. Thanks a ton, Amit!
I didn’t go to work yesterday to take care of some school stuff (and something else that shall remain nameless until it’s over with). In between “appointments”, I was at home working at my desk on all the stuff that’s accumulated. I have a single drawer for Letter-sized hanging files. I’m supposed to go through periodically and purge anything in my folders that don’t need to be there anymore, but I haven’t done that - ever. I shredded everything that I didn’t need to keep anymore, and ended up dumping about five 13-gallon plastic bags of shredded paper. My drawer feels better, and I haev some manila folders I can reuse for something else. I used 43 folders the other day to create my tickler file, so this makes up for those used folders.
I have a lot to go with the other aspects of my desk. I think I bought too much supplies than I know where to store them.
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