I have been bad at posting again - this past week has been very hectic, really ever since I cleared my desk before my last post.

It's very easy to slip into bad habits and my worst habits are:

1. Letting work pile up on my desk with no organization.
2. Letting email pile up in my inbox with no organization.

When these two things happen, I start to spend more time trying to figure out what I need to do than actually doing it again. Not good. And what is the point of staying organized when if the chips are down and it's crunch time, it doesn't help anyway. However, I find myself falling back on one BIG tip that keeps me sane during the very disorganized times, and that's free text search, Ctrl-F, either in Eudora, MeetingMaker, on web pages, or big documents (Word, PDF). When I'm in a hurry, I press Ctrl-F and search for a word in what I'm looking for. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people panic and search through their email, email by email, instead of just using Ctrl-F and searching for a key word.

I've even found something similar in Datatel that unfortunately won't apply to 99% of the people reading this post, but maybe take an opportunity to think more about how you can quickly find things in the programs you use, instead of hunting and searching line by line, or screen by screen.

Yep, this is a repeat idea, but I wanted to at least post something to prove I hadn't forgotten about you guys.