for me, it’s the paper list. i loved outlook in the office, and you can make it pop up reminders for you…crossing with calendar, etc…but that was for work, and i am not in that environment.

for me the process of actually writing with an instrument of the hand (?) onto paper helps me remember somewhat more. I have to redo and redo and collate and redo, but i have learned to carry paper scraps and notebooks.

some lists sit. i’ve started to learn that’s ok. i hate it though. if i think of it, it must be done. and that sucks. because not all of it matters.

update us on what works …

Deb — I am reserving that book at the library right now! I fear with a digital voice recorder that I would just lose it, though.

The idea of the book is that we carry stress because there are tasks in our heads that we are worried about keeping track of, and the book works toward creating means of documenting and tracking those things so we can lose the stress.

Another thought is a digital voice recorder (the Olympus WS-300M is a good one). There are a great way to capture random thoughts, if you can get used to carrying it around. You would, at some point, have to remember to play them back…!

I like the fact that Google Calendar will send me an SMS message on events, and if you make something that you need to do art of your schedule, you’ll know when you can do it!