I'm back to work with a vengeance as a freelance. I have two widely differing main jobs, and then hope to supplement the income from these with occasional other jobs. I'm a media person so both jobs involve keeping lots of contact details.
I am drowning. I live in perpetual fear that I have forgotten an appointment - either work or DC-related. I am battling to reconcile a never-quite-gotten-through To Do list that combines priorities from the different jobs. I have a diary that lives on my desk; an iphone and gmail (on an Acer laptop) and I never know which appointments have been written where. Plus, if I put an appointment in my iphone I can never FIND it until the reminder comes up - eg when is DS next at the orthodontist. School holidays are in my desk diary but I need to know when they are when I am in meetings equipped only with my iphone calender.
How do I centralise things so that I can check one calendar each day, week, month and know what the feck I am doing ? And so that I can get electronic reminders for important meetings? Do I need The Cloud in my life, and if so - what IS it and how do I use it/get it? Do I have to get an Apple Mac to use the cloud? And should I bite the bullet and start saving for an ipad ? Would it work very well for someone with my sprawling and diverse work schedule ?
How do you all do it - especially the freelance people like me who have to go out of the house a lot to meetings and different venues. Do you use technology or old fashioned diaries ? How do you keep track of papers and notes? And dentist appointments??
And- a final difficulty: I need a contacts 'book' or directory that moves with me, but I dont want my personal contacts on my iphone to be swamped by work contacts that I use once a month. Is there an app I can use?
I would be very grateful for any advice or steers.
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HEEEELP. Badly need a techno boffin to tell me how to organise my calendar, contacts and life
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slouchingtowardsBethlehem · 18/02/2013 11:17
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