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Using Both Computer and Lo-Fi

Hi all,

I'm looking for ideas about using both print and digital tools in planning/organizing. Lately I've been managing my daily to-do list on paper but keeping all my long-term to-do's, tagged by project, on Remember the Milk.

I have to use an electronic calendar because we share it at work, but I miss my paper calendar. Are there realistic and efficient ways to use both?

Any ideas, or pointers to places where people have written about this, would be greatly appreciated!

-Jim

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Good Thoughts. Thanks.

Stew,

Thanks for sharing your thinking on this. Sounds like I'm on the right track in thinking of electronic as reference and paper as day-to-day. I could do the paper calendar and synch digitally, though finding the time to do this seems next to impossible. But then, I'm fortunate to have an assistant who handles a lot of my calendar stuff anyway. I might be able to work with her on a paper-to-electronic synching process...

Thanks especially for the pointer to the whitepaper. Looks like a good read, and potentially very helpful to my thinking on this hifi/lofi thing.

Best,
-Jim

 
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