Mar 20 2008
Organized, I am
Ha! I can be organized at a few things at a time. I use my iMac and the internet all day long and have multiple windows open, too many actually. I came up with a way to organize it. Me! I did, seriously.
I open, and leave open in my dock, three different browsers, each for specific tasks. It works beautifully for me, especially since each one has a distinct icon in my dock.
- Safari: Business email, Mapquest, business related searches, Myfax.com, etc.
- Firefox: Personal emails that are not on .mac, house and apartment searches, panic searches, and to have open any instructions for things I am doing on other browsers.
- Flock: All blogging, Google reader, Bloglines.
That way I can easily switch into business mode from blogging with a quick glance. OK, it would be easy for most people, but trying to tear me away from something I am reading that is interesting hasn’t been done yet, not without a fight anyway. And yes, I know we have a brand new laptop to do business on… but I have not exported EACH Pages or Numbers file as a Windows compatible yet, too many of them! I have a feeling for a while, that computer will be used more for internet and eventually GPS on the road and to hold all the back up files, but that in itself was worth the purchase.
At least I am getting organized in dribs and drabs… Why we even own an oak file cabinet with Pendaflex files in two different sizes and beautifully colored folders complete with labels… labels? I was supposed to label them? I really hate that job, I would rather take out the trash.
Any guesses which Browser gets used the most?
3 responses so far
Hey, you are welcome. It’s great when I can actually post helpful stuff in the “it’s all been done before” osphere.
It may have been done before at times, Damien, but we can’t all read everyone’s blogs, so I am grateful you post that stuff!
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Marcia.
It’s amazing what you can do! It takes me forever to blog or visit blogs. I go to each blog on my sidebar…whether they have posted or not…and if I want to comment it takes me forever to enter my name…url…email address and then comment. I have to do this with each and every one. there has to be a better and faster way. I couldn’t imagine having different windows open when I do this!
Glad to see you are really getting organized!
There probably is a better way, I think there are Macros you can do where you just push a key or two, but I haven’t had time to learn it.. yeah, that makes sense, no time to make time to save time… I’m human!