Tech Habits

The article 20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life provided some helpful suggestions for using technology to make things easier. I think that the keystroke shortcuts are a great suggestion. I already use a few of them and if I knew more I'm sure I would use them too. I think that I should take the advice of keeping my inbox clean. My inbox is a mass of personal messages, school mailings, political messages, and advertisements. I find the clutter overwhelming, but I have some kind of compulsion to keep them all. I think I'm afraid that I'll accidentally lose something important. The suggestion of having the Action, Later and Archive folders would make me feel much better about the whole thing. I think that balancing a checkbook and managing your finances is just as easily done on paper as it is on a computer, and the same goes for calendars, email notices so that you don't forget your own mother's birthday seems like you're relying too much on technology to run your life and do the thinking for you.