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I am curious on how everyone manage your time. What tools you use?

Since long ago, starting from early secondary school, I’ve been managing my homework by writing them down on a small piece of paper and keep it in my pencil box. Whenever I finished a homework, i “cross” off the task by drawing a box around it and fill it with pen hatching. By the time I finished all my homework, the paper would be filled with ink~!

Later, I started using an organizer. It was very useful. I can track a lot of things in it, like birthdays, what to do, appointments…etc. Then i started to keep my notes and receipts in it until it is overloaded.

Not long after that, I ditch the organizer and started making my own organizer by cutting 2 Ring hard-cover file. It doesn’t look nice as I didn’t do any decoration on it but it is very functional.  Everything is customized according to my usage and lifestyle.

Then, I switched to digital organizer aka Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). I’ve been using it for about 3 years now and It’s still something new to me. The possibilities are endless. It can also be use as any other things, such as a media player, photo album, general reference device, alarm clock…etc. The only drawback so far is it need battery to run and it is fragile. That’s why you see me carrying mine in a big hard shell.

All the tools I used had their pro and cons. It all depends on what we need. What are the pro and cons? What type of organizing system I use? That, I’ll leave it to the next topic.

What are your tools of choice?