College has taught me a few very important things about myself. One is that that I am love with being organized. For example – my favorite part of a new year is buying a new planner.I love looking on the shelves to find that planner perfect for me. It needs to have lots of space to hot down homework, meetings, reminders to myself, ect. It also needs to have a monthly calendar to I can go through in advance and write down all of the due dates from my syllabi. I love the rush you get from color coding all the the assignments, classes, and meetings! It also needs to have tabs for easy flipping for month to month. Mmmm….I love planners.
My second area of organization is Google (mail,docs, calendar, ect). I’m so happy the University decided to begin to use g-mail and Lakerapps for our school mail system. It makes it to easy to be organized and share information very easily. Especially being involved with student organizations or group projects. You can customize sharing and editing privileges as well as track changes in documents. You can also share calendars with as many or as few people as you want. This is so helpful for organizations. I like to color cold my google calendar to match my planner!
This is my color coded Google calendar that also snycs with my Droid so I can always have reminders of what I need to do!
My third step of planning/organization is POST-ITS. They are probably the best and most useful product ever invented. I use POST-ITS in my planner, text books, notebooks, and especially on my walls. I know…what a random place to stick them but, I’ve come up with a way to remember to do my work as well as motivate me to do it. After I sync my planner and calendar to my droid and set up reminders…I write each assignment on a POST-IT and stick it to my wall. (I know this isn’t green friendly-But, it is GPA friendly). One I write them all down I stick them on my wall. This way when i’m slacking off on my work watching The Jersey Shore…I’ll look at my wall and be reminded of what I have to do. Then when Jersey Shore is over and I finally finish my work….there is no greater feeling that watching the blob of POST-ITS come down one by one-showing how much I have accomplished!!
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How do you link it to your droid? I can’t figure it out, it keeps asking me for the protocol & server!
I do it through the G-mail app. It then gets your e-mail, calendar and you can link your facebook to you google calendar and then they are both on the droid. Hope this helps.
the Google calender does work easier for me. Looks like you are a fun for new tech applications kyle!
This seems like a great way to stay organized. I love the pick of the wall being consumed by Post Its. Do you give these ideas to freshmen at orientation? This would have helped me a lot instead spending three years figuring out I needed a planner.