Posted by The Foo in Life through my eyes

I have finally downsized my Outlook Inbox from a whopping 1125 emails to 105 with only 10 unread emails. I have been meaning to do this email cleanup for about a year now.

Since I am in a get your life together mood, here are some useful free life hacking tools to do exactly that:

Calendar: 30 Boxes or Kiko (I use 30 Boxes)
Project Management: Basecamp
Bookmarks: del.icio.us
Goals: Joe’s Goals
All in one to-list,notes and reminders: Backpack (has a super online calendar but you’ll have to pay for it)
Online Scrapbook: Tumblr
To-do lists: Tadalist
Shopping lists: Shopgetwhat.com
Reminders: PingMe (reminders emailed to your inbox or mobile phone)
Sending large files that your work email won’t allow you to: Yousendit
Online file storage: Box.net
Organize and keep track of your receipts: Shoeboxed.com

Anyone else want to share more get your life together tools, feel free to add to the list. I’m always looking out for them.

Enjoy!

3 Responses to “Getting organized!”

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   Soren said: @ 1:07 pm
   August 24th, 2007 

   
   

   Ive found it really easy to just go with the entire Google family of web programs (apps, calendar, mail, etc)

   they also release API’s so you can do cool stuff - I have calgoo to take my calendar offline, I have goosync to put it on my phone, I use apps for word processing, spread sheets, all that fun stuff.

   best of all - everything i just mentioned has free versions. Ive paid for apps, use the free calgoo, and paid for goosync.

   all in all ive maybe spend 80 bucks. so much cheaper then ms office.

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   yoshi said: @ 1:25 pm
   August 24th, 2007 

   
   

   You’re way organized than me. I’m still using postit notes (the paper ones) and tin cans with string.

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   kristarella said: @ 1:06 am
   August 27th, 2007 

   
   

   I was going to go with Google stuff too… not to the extent that Soren has, I still need an offline office suite (I use the free NeoOffice). The calendar is pretty sweet though, you can send invites and stuff from there as well.
   Shoeboxed looks like a good idea, I’m not really keeping track of my receipts so much as where I spend money, I’m using a program called CashBox for that… probably not much good to you on Windows ;-)

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