Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Organizer: Have one at ur google home

There are lot of Google gadgets that are very cool. This one is very handy, in organizing the day to day tasks and planning the tasks. I was trying different free-wares, that would be useful for day to day planning. This one was best among them so far. This is called "To-Do List+". It is simple. You can add this gadget in your google customized home page.
Daily, in the morning, when you go to office, you can login to Google. You can think of the tasks of the day and Just add them on to the To-do lists. As the day progress, u can keep on adding the new tasks. You can even set priorities and dates for the tasks. As and when you complete the tasks, you can close the tasks. This is very handy on-the-fly organizer.
At Office, you may think of doing some personal works at home, on the same day or the next day. You may forget it when you go home. Using this "To Do plus" tool, you can add the tasks to be done at home. At home, you can login to see the tasks that you saved in the morning. This way, you wont miss anything. And most of all this is very simple, fast and handy.
Happy Organizing and accomplishing!

Saturday, May 19, 2007

To Boston, with Buddy


Going to a new place is nice, that too with one of the closest buddy is a blast. This time of the US trip, I was not interested in visiting new places. I decided to see my college buddy, Thirukkumaran. We spent a weekend in Rhode Islands and Boston. The richest guys in NY used this location as a place to spend their summer times. The houses are so expensive, built with stuff imported from foreign countries, similar to Karaikudi Chettiyar veedu. Most of the architecture were from French. These huge palaces are now opened to public now. Then on the Boston, went to Whale Watching on the Atlantic. More than the new places, we discussed lot of old memories and repeated comedy scenes from Vadivelu movies. The visit was indeed very rejuvenating, as I was recovering from a personal mishap recently.

Daily retrospect

In bachelor's life, mostly, we don’t spend time alone, as we are always in a circle of friends. I realized that, one must spend some time alone, may be a 30 minutes daily for retrospection. A 30 minutes seems to be very easy, but is not. Most of the time at office we are with colleagues. At home u are always surrounded by friends, room-mates or some one in phone.
A retrospect in that 30 minutes would keep one always accountable for himself. Personally I feel these retrospect would help individuals to identify his strengths and to help work out his vision in practice. One can plan things that are needed for long run as well as to accomplish short term goals like “doing tomorrows work”.