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“Post-Its“
an entry on Project Nemeth.
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8:51 pm on 10/20/2008
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life
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dashboard, forget, osx, post-it's, selective memory, stickies
Post-Its
I don’t remember things too well. I take that back, I don’t remember some things too well. I have a very selective memory and I don’t always control what it does and does not remember. So to augment [Real Christianity vocab word] my weakness I use Mac OS X’s dashboard and the help of “stickies” [because "post-its" is copyrighted] to remember things.
The only problem is, because they are small I can’t write entire novel’s on them and so I am forced to abbreciate my notes to a sort of short hand. As you can see some of them make sense and some do not. Always seem to understand the ones that make sense, however after a couple of weeks/days/hours I tend to forget the ones that don’t.
Once I arrive at the point where I don’t know what a note means I delete it. So far this system has worked flawlessly. I suppose in the time it takes me to forget some things is equal to the time it takes for things to become unimportant.
Do you have any sort of memory tricks/tools/helps?
Andrew Nemeth
i have tried everything.
planners.
to do lists.
actual post its.
cell phone tasks.
What has worked best so far is association: i plan out my days way ahead of time and that helps for me to remember if i’m missing something. I’ll associate things together so i can’t have one without feeling the absence of the other. For example: saturdays mean homework, sundays mean church and babysitting, mornings mean workout, free time means painting (on commission), 4pm means a phone call to my mother, and bedtime means pills and brushing my teeth.
Easy enough? I should think so.
Kate
12:59 am - 10/25/2008