Preparing for your Masters

Trying to get uber-organized for studying, whilst staying afloat at work and enjoying Charlie, my lovely little baby…

This is what I have done so far:

  • Document store – Created folders in Google Docs for the phases & units of the program,
  • Knowledge Base – Created this wordpress blog and added the phases & units as categories,
  • Time Management – Created a new Google calendar for study related events and deadlines,
  • Planning – Blocked out the weekly program schedule in calendar, this can be shared if your interested, (twitter me @dubaidan)
  • Multi-tasking – Synced program calendar with my office and home calendars, so I can see overlaps,
  • On the move – Synced Google calender with iCal, (using Spanning Sync), so it appears on the iPhone
  • Managing links – Created new tags in delicious account, so I can filter out program links
  • Managing feeds – Created new folder in Google reader to manage program feeds

Additional add-ons for Firefox

Zotero for firefox – Citation Management, (will be great once the sync is released)
Google Notebook for Firefox – Keep a shared notepad handy at all times
Delicious – Tag and share my links & references with friends
Twitterfox – Tweets from the browser
Remember the Milk – Getting things done, (GTD), task list, integrates with Gmail

This should work no matter what OS you use, I move between 4 Macs so I wanted my notes, links, feeds, documents, calendars and task list available everywhere, online and if possible shareable, (oh yeah… and free)

This works for me today…