Monthly review: November 2011

Posted on December 18th, 2011 by Sacha Chua

Halfway through December, I know, but things got busy with two launches and home improvements. =)

… I’m going to focus on having a place for everything and everything
in its place. I’m experimenting with the stuff-tracking I’ve added to
my personal dashboard. Looking forward to sharing screenshots and
experiences, and maybe even opening it up so that other people can
track their things too. I’d like to see if I can complete a month of
tracking stuff, and what I find myself needing to add to it. Let’s see
how that works out!

I built a simple stuff tracker, and it’s up there now. My stuff use has stabilized – all the locations for my frequently-moved things are in the system, and contexts make it easy enough to update. I don’t update it as often as I could, probably because the web pages are somewhat slow to load and use on my laptop. Better mobile stylesheets or a native Android app can take care of that. I’ve used it to take notes on things I’m likely to forget, and I hope that will pay off.

I’ve misplaced my keys twice after months of not losing them, though. That was more about inattentiveness than forgetting where they are.

My December experiment will be tracking my time using Tap Log Records instead of Time Recording, and gathering ideas for building my own app. I want to see if switching tools will make it easier for me to capture other data in addition to activity, such as mood and ideas, and where the rough parts are so that I can smooth them over.

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http://www.daysstories.blogspot.com Mom

Dear Sacha,

If you can teach this stuff-tracking program to your non-geek mother, then I desperately need it.

Love,
Mom
http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

Can you make a spreadsheet of things you’d like to remember and where they are, so I can try entering them into the system and then eventually setting it up so that you can do so? Might be a good idea to do an inventory. One column might have the item name, and the other column might have the location. You can add other notes in other columns if you want.

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