I am quite organised, even to the point of mostly knowing what I am doing tomorrow.
Jackie in Toronto posted this about organised people.
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Yes, I tick most of the boxes as being organised. Not being organised would give me great stress. Ray was the same. Phyllis and Kosov are terribly disorganised. I never run out of anything, but they do and have to make a last minute trip to somewhere for something.
My email organisation is up to date, as is everything else, with one exception.
In the mid 1990s when we bought our first computer and connected to the internet, someone who I was chatting to on a rudimentary chat site, maybe MIRC, sent me a photo of a bunch of flowers, followed by a dick pic. How amazing that this machine can do that! I saved the photos, and I probably could find them now if I needed to, but it was a downhill slope from there. I saved and I saved, everything. Photos, videos, messages...everything. My oldest email address still operational is from the nineties, a Rocketmail eddress, which became a Yahoo eddress. Not often, but I still use it.
However, over the years I had organised things, almost everything. Photos are filed in folders, stored in the cloud and on an external ssd drive. The problem is that I didn't name all the folders appropriately, and with near two gigabytes of photos, I struggle to find individual photos.
My brother asked me about a photo he had seen of Mother with her four children standing in front of the fireplace at the Dick Whittington Hotel in St Kilda. I just cannot find the photo, but I have now worked a way to narrow it down. He brought his dog Cobber into the hotel, and he was asked to take the dog outside. Cobber died suddenly soon after. So I need to ask him what year Cobber died, and that will narrow the search down to one year. Wow, I've just remember Jo was there, crawling around on the floor crawling around on the floor and checking out the contents of women's handbags. She must have been two years old, so I need to look at 2009. That's so much earlier than I thought.
Or were these two different visits to The Dick. We went there so many times over so many years. Btw, The Dick has a drive through alcohol outlet where apparently you can pick up your Dick Liquor.
When I have something stored, while it might take some time and thought, I can usually find it.
The afore mentioned guy who sent me photos in the 90s might be this guy. The photo is all of 45 kilobytes.
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Oh Andrew, really! Dick Liquor?
ReplyDeleteWell, I suppose that it helps people remember that there is drive thru service.
Will Jay
It was worse than that Will Jay. One of the meals on the pub's menu was a Dick cheese platter.
DeleteI don't do half those things but I do put everything back where it belongs!!!
ReplyDeleteBob, that one is pretty important.
DeleteDick Liquor? When my life ends I will have produced three trillion sperms. I am so well-organised that every one of those sperms has a name. About 143,000 of them are called Andrew but not one of them is called Donald.
ReplyDeleteI am honoured YP, and I note your comment is related to your quiz post today.
DeleteOn that list I could scratch out #6,7,8,11,26, I may be organised still, but not super-organised anymore. As for my pictures files, well let's just say "what the hell is going on there?" I used to save everything in folders from January to December and dated then each set was put into a folder dated with the year. I still do that but also have a zillion random pictures saved from sites online, some in folders labelled "trees" or "buildings" and so on, but I really need to get in there and delete-delete-delete..
ReplyDeleteMy photos are in monthly folders, placed into yearly folders, often with useful naming but so often not.
DeleteLike River, I do a lot of tasks on the list automatically, but not every one - that would be too obsessive. For example at bedtime, I don't do a cleanup, quick or otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI like the kitchen/dining/lounge being tidy before I go to bed.
DeleteI think I score just 1 out of those 30.
ReplyDeleteI used to be more digitally organised but I have not recovered from having the cloud foisted on me when a computer service shop upgraded my machine to Windows 11 without asking me, thereby foisting the cloud on me. This totally destroyed my well-established file and folder systems. I would like to undo that but it seems complicated. I should have asked my nephew, an IT professional, for assistance when he came to stay for a week in January but it seemed a bit of a busman's holiday to impose on him and the opportunity was lost.
MC, so aren't your stuffs filed on your hard drive. Ah, they were not transferred to your repaired computer buy put in the cloud. I pay for cloud storage now. I works quite well for me, for what will never be important to others. Photos also go onto separate hdd and ssd.
DeleteBoth for personal life and work, I operate on the basis of the zero inbox. Every day needs to end with an empty inbox. If it's an email or task you can deal with quickly, just do it straight away. But if it's going to take longer take the task or item and schedule it for when you have time, in the next few days, If you leave too much in your inbox, you're always chasing your tail. It makes a huge difference. I have colleagues who end up with an inbox of unread or unactioned items they never get to.
ReplyDeleteI almost do James. Some emails stay until something is completed. A backlog of emails would cause me to die.
DeleteWe have thousands of photos, my husband does not delete anything. I imagine one day they will just be all gone, which makes me less sad than I thought it would.
ReplyDeleteI still print out photos, not a lot of them, but of Jack, for his own photo album.
Don't we overthink things Pixie. Most of what is saved won't be of interest to anyone. Well, not quite true. Family photos maybe not, but photos of places etc, maybe. One never knows of what will be of interest in the future. In fifty years time, wouldn't people who then live in your home be interested to see what it looked like in 2026.
DeleteI do most of those things but am regarded as being disorganised. I keep trying
ReplyDeleteThat's a bit queer, Kylie.
DeleteInteresting list there Andrew. I have trouble finding photos even though they are in a folder dated, I have to stop and think what year was that. Then to add to the confusion phone photos are well in other folder, either by town or put in another folder on their own...
ReplyDeleteI used to use ICQ way back. I think the Arabs own it then, yes 1996.
Margaret, all my photos are now phone photos but I have folders from years passed just labelled 'Phone'.
DeleteI think we organise the things that are important to us and let the rest look after itself!
ReplyDeleteJB, perhaps you are right about that.
DeleteI do the same as Jabblog, my computer and photos are well organized and saved on hard disks, I don't trust clouds or other things, but don't look in my wardrobe or drawers ! Only I can find a sock in there. Rick was like you very organized sometime too much, because in his filing system I didn't find a thing !
ReplyDeleteI am pretty organised borderline OCD
ReplyDeleteI would not have guessed either way Roentare, but I'm pleased to know this.
DeleteI function well in clutter,
ReplyDeleteI cannot, but I have observed people who do, one with a desk piled high with papers in all directions, yet could find anything in a couple of seconds.
DeleteThe night mode captures amazing pictures even in low light.
ReplyDeleteLong time follower but never before commented. May be helpful. I have nearly 39,000 photos in Icloud. Of course Apple has them sorted according to years, etc. And I have people and dogs named. About a month ago, I wanted to show somebody a photo of me in my grandson's just-acquired fireman uniform. Had no idea what year, etc. Oh, my. But.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on "all photos" in my library. Discovered the "search" icon in top right of screen. Typed in "Rose in fireman suit". Voila! Instantly came the photo taken in 2018! I just now asked for "Rose in bluebonnets". Yes. All six photos of me sitting in bluebonnets in 2021. Don't know if this would help you; maybe if you have people named in your photos? Good luck!
I have clutter but usually know where things are. I always stock up on things before i run out, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteA lot of these I do already. Decluttering my writing stuff is my biggest challenge, the published stuff and all the tons of work that goes into it, printed off. Boxes and boxes. I work better with printed stuff. On line is hard on my eyes. But specific places for everything is an absolute MUST. Stashes of yarn is another thing I struggle as in the "You never know" category. Oh and books. JFC the books.
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I'm almost organized;)
ReplyDeleteLimited space may be a factor in organization, as it forces a person to throw things away. The internet, as we know, is virtually unlimited. A person ends up throwing away much, much less, and that works against organization.
ReplyDeleteI must be an organised person as I do most of the list. I don't like to feel disorganised. But I get frustrated when I can't remember where I stored something. I would imagine that you are well organised.
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