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Clearing Up the Confusion E-Zine Vol 01 Issue 04
------- Clearing Up the Confusion E-Zine -------
Vol 1, Issue 4
Ha! You thought I would forget again, didn't you? Well, OK, I
almost did. The challenge, it seems is not so much finding tools
to help us do our jobs, rather the difficulty lies in
*remembering* to use them. It's just fortunate for me that I
decided to click over to my "To Do" tab in my Google Homepage, or
this one might have gotten past me, too!
In This Issue...
1. Article: You Must Remember This...
2. Blog Posts
3. Guest Article: The Different Types Of Memory
4. Shameless Self-Promotion
5. The Fine Print
1. Article: You Must Remember This...
One of the most ingenious inventions in the world of "Getting
Things Done" has to be the Post-It(tm) note. So simple, so
versatile, so useful. Now, if we could only figure out how to
get that functionality and put it into our online world.
I'm pretty good with remembering things -- especially if the
happen pretty much every day. Still, even if I remember 90% of
the things I have to remember, that still means I'm skipping
meetings with one out of every ten clients. Probably not a good
way to run a business. So, to help my already good memory, I've
been slowly accumulating a number of other tools to bring my
percentages close to 100%. You might want to check out some of
these utilities.
* Google Calendar. This is a big one for me. GCal allows you to
maintain multiple individual calendars. Personally, I have
about seven of them -- one for business, one for exercise and
physical training, one for my personal life, etc. You can then
display all of these together to help keep it all straight.
All I have to do then is remember to check at the beginning of
each day to find out what's going on. Even better if I check
the night before. GCal also has the benefit of being able to
share calendars. My wife, Lisa, and I share a couple of travel
calendars so that we both know when the other will be out of
the house.
* To Do Gadget. I have a whole page of "To Do" lists on my
Google Homepage. I have lists for projects (one for work and
one for home), things to pick up when out on errands, thank you
notes to write, and invoices that I need to send, among others.
Since I am in front of my computer most of the time, this is
about the most efficient way of keeping track of all of this
stuff. The one thing it *doesn't* do well is keep track of
recurring events. Which leads me to...
* Remember the Milk. RTM is almost a calendar for date-specific
to do items. Where GCal helps me organize my appointments, RTM
reminds me of things I am supposed to do periodically, like
produce this e-zine. It even has a gadget which can display on
my Google Homepage. Very nice! Now, if it just had an email
notification feature, that would really make my day.
* BitPIM. This is a nice little piece of software which I think
I mentioned a couple of issues ago. BitPIM allows me to
transfer my GCal calendars and contact information to and from
my LG enV cell phone. I try to remember to synchronize it each
evening which means that when I meet people during the day, I
can easily let them know when I am free to meet with them.
That's the list as it is right now. Perhaps you've run into some
other ones which I should know about. Someone mentioned jott.com
to me the other day. Apparently it lets you call a number with
your cell phone, leave a message for someone (including yourself)
and the message will appear in their email as text. I'll have to
check it out to let you know what I think. In the meantime, good
luck on remembering all of your opportunities and blessings.
Copyright 2007, Greg Peters
2. Blog Posts
Links to posts on the "Clearing Up the Confusion" Blog from the last year:
Sunday, April 02, 2006 -- Soundtrack for Your Life
http://clearing-confusion.blogspot.com/2006/04/soundtrack-for-your-life.html
Sunday, December 10, 2006 -- Good Things: Free Hosting
http://clearing-confusion.blogspot.com/2006/12/good-things-free-hosting.html
3. Guest Article: The Different Types Of Memory
By Eric Hartwell
Memory, the brain's power to remember things, comes in different
forms. Memory is not a tangible thing; it is not possible to
'improve' one's memory, per se. A person can develop his or her
memory skills through practice, like playing guitar. A person's
memory can be trained through active participation, paying
attention to his or her weak areas of memory or remembering
things and make a conscious effort to increase the capacity of
his or her brain.
Different domains or types of memory exist in the brain. A person
can be very adept at remembering events in the past with great
detail but forget where they left their wallet or keys. Like a
database, memory is organized in different areas of the brain. A
person, without effort, can remember their phone number,
birthdates, the taste of chocolate, the sound of children
playing, the scent of a rose, the knowledge of how to ride a
bike, the feeling of fear and the intention to remember to pick
up milk on the way home. Cognitive psychologists believe these
bits of information are stored in multimodal systems of
memory. These domains of memory are useful when considering the
process of improving one's memory. Different memory strategies
can be employed and matched with different memory tasks, using
the knowledge of how pieces of information are encoded on the
brain.
Knowledge memory, the information about the world or external
things, and personal memory, the information people know about
themselves, are two fundamentally distinct domains of memory. In
the domain of knowledge memory, information about music, numbers,
language, stories or facts are stored. This includes a person's
ability to remember words or a subject he or she has
studied. Identity memory refers to the ability of a person to
match a name with a face, attempting to remember who that person
is, where and how that person is known by them and what the
details of that person's life are.
Event memory refers to a person's ability to remember whether or
not they have done something, where they have put something, when
and where something happened to them and remembering
dates. Planning memory refers to a person's ability to remember
to do something at a particular time or place, whether they can
remember to remember to do something, for example, a person
having the thought 'I was supposed to do something, I know I told
myself to remember it, what is it, why am I standing here?' Skill
memory refers to the ability to remember how something is done, a
particular task, how to operate a camera, for example.
With personal memory, a person retains autobiographical
information, skill information, social information and planning
information. Autobiographical memory incorporates information
about oneself, what that person's details are that make them
unique, the facts of their life, their experiences and their
emotions. All of these bits of detail are processed differently
and contained in different domains of memory in the brain. A
person's memory for emotions can help a person change their
mood. When a person has a strong memory for a specific event that
they have experienced, the memory includes details specific to
that occasion. As humans, we experience much of life in a routine
fashion; these memories are contained in a generic memory- one
which includes the common elements of the routine experience.
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4. Shameless Self-Promotion
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owner, chief cook, and bottlewasher of Cyber Data Solutions. CDS has
been helping nonprofit and charitable organizations develop their web
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5. The Fine Print
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