Personal organiser - or personal DISorganiser?

PERSONAL ORGANISER - OR PERSONAL DIS

ORGANISER?

Too many categories in your phone agenda and before you know where you are, your personal organiser has transformed itself into a personal disorganiser!

If you're keen on creating category icons for your phone or pda agenda, how about giving a little thought to creating the categories in the first place? After all, it isn't only little entries and images you're arranging. It's your life!

Keep life simple. Don't be tempted to have too many categories in your task list, calendar or address list.

Most pda organizer software includes at least one starter icon set that you can adapt or replace for your own use. Icon sets can contain over 65,000 icons. Each icon could represent a category! That's wa-a-a-y over the top for personal use.

CATEGORY TYPES

Here's a bit of personal experience. In the various handheld agenda setups I've used, at first I categorised my ToDos and Appointments by subject matter. For example, I'd class a visit to the bank as 'Money', or a doctor's appointment as 'Health'. Later I found this was not nearly as useful for future events as categorising by the kind of action, and where the action took place. For example, appointments became 'Go out' (with a little car icon ----) 'Home Visit' (with a house icon ) ... or maybe 'Work at Computer' (... ...) or 'Work in Garden' (... ...).

When the task is done, I now often re-categorise the item to save as a past diary or journal entry. For instance, I re-categorise 'Go Out' appointments to the doctor as 'Health' for my medical record.

The Address list doesn't refer to actions but to people and places, so I leave it divided by subject, for instance 'Computer', 'Financial', 'Health'.

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Personal organiser - or personal DISorganiser? Simplify your agenda categories. Simplify your life.

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