Help me get organized - any suggestions?
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
March 29, 2008 2:37pm CST
How do you keep the things (in my case many things!) that you do online for earnings all straight and accounted for? I mean for instance, i have my GPT stuff pretty well situated and know when to do the PTC and how the GPT works and when they tend to be approved faster or more often, things like that. But with blogs, web sites, article writing and things like that - how do you organize them so that you keep them current?
I am an "over-organizer" so I might have myself so organized that I am confusing myself, but can't figure the way out!. I had bought these nice little spiral tablets - labeled each one for each venture. I have 8 blogs! so each blog got a tablet. I have one for My Lot so I could jot down things to start discussions as I thought of them until I had time to log in again. The blogs were the same, ideas to do, things that are ready to be submitted or handled, and on the options go.
However.... here I still sit, unorganized - I know I have all these things to do, but can'tfigure where to start and then see I have so many things, which do I start first. I figure, just write them all down and start at the top but so many of them are all on the same thing I'll be back and forth so much I'll exhaust myself and get frustrated. Okay, so I group things for each venture... okay, I did that with the tablets and it didn't work. Talk about a ficious circle! Or is it just me and a pot hole I am hitting and making it into a road block!
What do you all do? And I am not a computer person - PDA or other computer way of staying organized. I am a visual person and I have to have it in my hands to read and (hopefully) cross off and not have to log on to someplace or open some document to see waht I have to do. Me and the pencil and paper are best friends.... I just can't make an appointment with them right now!
Any suggestions?
2 responses
@chrislotz (8136)
• Canada
15 Jun 08
I have a binder that I keep everything written down in. I belonged to so many sites that I had to do something to keep track of them all. I don't work most of them anymore but the ones I do, I still keep track of them in my binder. I have so many bloggs and websites, started, that I had to write them all down so I would remember them all. I don;t work most of them anymore and just stick to one of them now. I would like to find a way to get rid of my name on all of these sites but it would just take too long to delete the ones I don't work on anymore, and some of them don't have a cancel button so I can't cancel them. Every once in awhile I get an email from the ones I don't work on, but they are just reminders and I have gone into the sites and no cancellation button. Oh well, no headaches, just delete the email.
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
15 Jun 08
That is kind of what I have - a smaller notebook - and just all the log-ings, emails, passwords and such to log into all the places I deal with. I just upgraded it to a 5x7 size with ABC tabs and am transfering all to this one from the smaller one.
ON the ones you don't work anymore, often if you are not active on the site for 30-60 days, they will automatically close your account. If you don't respond to the email, they might do that too. But like you said..delete the email!
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
29 Mar 08
I sure do know what you mean and after a few months I broke down and bought the software called TheZPaidHelp which automatically logs in and updates earnings. As this program only cost $10 it has a few shortcomings so I do also use a book to summarize the different rules and keep an archive copy of the balances just in case something bad happens to the program. I use Notezilla, too, for alarm reminders and lengthy notes, but I use that for everything, not just the "ventures" as you call them.
I wish the type font could be enlarged in ThePaidHelp because on my screen the information is a little hard to read, but it is sure better than fighting with a spreadsheet.
TPH cannot automatically update the survey and writing sites but it does log in and allow manual updates so that we can track the earnings that way. I'm telling you this program made tax time a snap this year.
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
30 Mar 08
Wow, sounds like you have it all down! I can't go the automated route. I just don't have it in me to let my pencil go! I use a good old fashioned green ledger sheet to keep track of my GPT and that is working graet. I just have to figure out something on the other things I do.
