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Instigator Blog: Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

  • Char · 3 years ago
    You should see my desk!

    Anyhow, the best tip I have for keeping track of passwords etc is to set up a master sheet in Excel. I have one for our personal stuff and one for my business. I print out one copy, put it in a protector sleeve and keep in a three ring binder on my desk. The other copy goes in the safe. I do the same for keeping track of all the FTP info for my sites and client sites.
  • Chris Cree · 3 years ago
    Ben, I'm with you. I'm getting to the point where I have a ridiculous number of passwords to keep track of. That one alone would be a big help for me.

    But getting everything else under one roof would be great. I hope someone out there will share a great application.
  • Ed Carvalho · 3 years ago
    Microsoft OneNote (2007 version Trial Avail) is my 'everything bucket'... A real -why didn't they think of this sooner??? tool...

    Slick-ness doubles for Outlook users: Seamless task / to do list & reminders integration

    Holy-cow Trifecta: When used on a take it everywhere small Tablet PC (Samsung Q1 in my case)
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 3 years ago
    I've thought about trying OneNote. I think I even installed it at one point...

    But there's no web-based version to synchronize with for other computers/access remotely is there?

    And thanks for commenting Ed!
  • Ed Carvalho · 3 years ago
    While I can't speak from direct experience with the sync functionality (funnel all I can to the small tablet), 2007 suppossedly handles this real well...
    Lots of info @ link below:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/200...
  • Carolyn Manning · 3 years ago
    For all of my reminders, ideas, brainstorms, etc Microsoft Works works. I named one document 'scrap paper' and use it every day. If something needs its own document, transfer is nothing more than cut and paste. Otherwise, stuff gets deleted when I'm finished with it. The calendar in my mailbox is wonderful for sending myself email reminders.

    Websites to visit later go into my bookmarks in a folder marked websites to visit later.

    The address book that came in my computer works for passwords and contact info. Use the business phone and/or home phone fields for passwords and/or usernames.

    These aren't incredibly sophisticated, but they work well.

    Carolyn
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 3 years ago
    Thank you for the suggestions. I have to take some time, think about how I want to do this and then experiment with some tools that can help!
  • Drew McLellan · 3 years ago
    Ben,

    Boy, DO I hear you with this. But, I have found a software (originally it was to synch with my Palm) that really helps me manage lots of information, passwords, URLs, credit card #s, frequent flyer #s -- you get the idea.

    Check out splashID.com

    It has really saved my hide more than once!


    Best,

    Drew
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 3 years ago
    Drew - thanks for the tip, I'll take a look soon!
  • John Smith · 3 years ago
    Very simple. Gmail.
    Professionnaly backed-up (so I don't have to worry about my hard drive crashing).
    Accessible from everywhere.
    Easily searchable.
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 3 years ago
    John - how do you use Gmail for to-dos/priorities, etc.? Or for "things to look at in the future"?

    Do you email yourself information then label it for later?
  • Jeff Carpenter · 2 years ago
    I’ve managed many developers on multi-million dollar software projects, but simple tools like BaseCamp (<a href="www.basecamphq.com" rel="nofollow">www.basecamphq.com ), AgileGraph ( www.agilegraph.com ), and Spreadsheets can help tame even the largest projects.

    In fact, I developed and bootstrapped AgileGraph just for that purpose.

    Many times I didn’t need complicated tools like MS Project, I just needed to find out which tasks were behind / complete / ahead, too costly, etc.
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 2 years ago
    Jeff - you're right - most of the time complex applications are not required. AgileGraph looks cool.

    Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Hope to see you around.