Thing 16: Good Gracious Google

     I promise you, I'm not purposely implementing all of these Google ideas for you to read about. Really. I promise. But since we're here, I want to let you all know about iGoogle. If it's something you don't have, you might want to reconsider. It's a pretty nifty idea. You see, I am a completely organized person. If I'm not organized then I freak out. Seriously. To prevent these mini-melt downs, I have a long list of tools that I use:

• To do lists
• Calendars
• Sticky notes
• Text messages
• Cd's
• Bulletin Boards
• Emails

But before I go into all that detail, I just want to acknowledge the fact that almost everything I mentioned can be accessed through iGoogle. You see, it's a homepage that you can customize based on your own personal preferences. As far as links go, you can link To do lists, sticky notes, etc. to your website. Since it already has a calendar attached to it, you can input all of your information and then you get reminder updates sent to your email. Because my phone is attached to my hip, I also get text message alerts. So not only do I remember events by checking my email, but by reading my texts too.
     Ta da lists does a great job of keeping everything you need organized and it also sends out reminders. You can access this through a computer, ipad, iphone, whatever and it's very structured (I like structure). But even more so, digitalized sticky notes are awesome, too. This is an online site where you can download some small program and once its there, you can stick sticky notes anywhere on your desktop. My computer automatically came with a program similar to this and I kid you not, you can barely tell if I even have a desktop background. That's how serious I am... :) Ridiculous, I know, but it makes me really happy. (ha!)
     But since I started talking about iGoogle, I'm gonna run right back to it for a quick second. Although it isn't my homepage, I do have a link to it on my Favorites. That's primarily because I do like to keep it as a permanent page since it has all of the information I need in one place. (My home page is Google, but I'm sure you're not surprised.) Furthermore, I can say that everything I mentioned are tools that I actually use. And I recommend them to everyone! They are absolutely wonderful. I hope you think so, too.

Yours,
TPlummer