Back to basics

I've been really struggling with a way to drag my work into my system. So, of course, I keep trying to change the system to fit the work. At times, I seem headed for a basically Vanilla system. Other times, I dive back into Note Studio or something else. Even took a look at the new Mac OSX desktop for Shadow this week. Was tempted.

The thing is, it's not the software. It's that I'm not entering things into my system. I thought of a half dozen things I hadn't bothered to enter into anything. There are a couple of new projects lurking out there. I was focused on entering a bunch of stuff into my Palm that I really don't need there. It's reference stuff I can look up at the computer. I thought somehow it would help with organizing the next catalog. I had an unbelievable mess in my memos, caused by exporting everything in Note Studio to memos before deleting it off my Palm. I'd done it twice and I had some of the same stuff that was exported into docs. Again, most was unimportant stuff. It's not really that I want to play around with software. I just want to find a structure that will help me to enter this stuff, so I can find it again. And I always think that the structure will help me to actually use my system. It also dawned on me that I hadn't bothered to tape the Graffiti area, something I've always done to cut down on scratching. I think I haven't been entering as much stuff directly into my Palm because I knew I was just scratching it up.

I'm still working on cleaning up the memo mess and am thinking of a way to flag them better. I noticed that I'm getting a bunch of stuff I don't want in Memoleaf searches. So I need to make sure that things are flagged to facilitate searches. And it's time to go back to basics, starting with a real true clean out your inbox review. I don't have time to waste on this software dance any more.