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I've recently made a bit of an effort to become organised, to augment my (A) being getting up at 9.00ish[1], (B) wasting less or indeed no time at work (C) slowly achieving my todo list[2] (D) thinking about where my life should go[3] (E) spodding hopefully more interestingly and (F) the aforementioned personality transplant :)

Fear my being a man now, my son! :)

I've redone my email folders a bit, so they're more hierarchical, and separated out the pooh and tolkien folders into 'chat' and 'committee' and 'announcements'. [livejournal.com profile] nakedtoes and [livejournal.com profile] sonicdrift can be squeeful and flattered that they've joined the elect club of people who have a folder of their own[4] :) Tim and Justin *would* but since *most* of the emails from one are also to the other, they are for the moment still co-existing in "timjustin" though for some equality I reversed the order.

I do, in fact, want email with categories, so something can be in both 'tim' AND 'justin'. It'd also be useful for emails from Foo AND poohsoc, or from Foo AND about house-finding, or whatever. But I like having IMAP. Can anyone advise me what system I should be using? Ideally I'd like email available from a server by both imap and webmail, and sortable into categories. I won't go much further, since I think that's still currently unacheivable. Gmail? Any other service? Download to outlook? Write an imap wrapper for gmail?

I've bought a shiny USB pen drive thingy[5] and moved all my personal files from home and work onto it. It's great having my todo list there where-ever I go, which has been a sticking point in my having one before. I've also reorganises a bit so I can find stuff; now my main personal folders are: fic_mine; fic_other's; gakked (quotes, downloaded pics, etc.); life (finance, etc.); poetry (not large, but enough to clutter up spod); pooh (mainly minutes); roleplaying; tech (stored settings, encrypted passwords, etc); spod (partially finished posts, articles, emails, poetry (but not any more), thoughts, plans, todos, etc).

[1] Today I woke up at 8.50 and got up without prompting by alarm, but I was *that* sanguine about going to work :) Yesterday I did some geek shopping first (see para 3) and woke up at 8.00, like I do at Xmas :)
[2] Bike very soon, promise. And shortly car, maybe.
[3] I think for satisfaction I need to acheived something, but aren't sure if this should be 'well paid job' or 'family' or something more innovative.
[4] Later I'm going to spod an amusing list of pseudo-definitions of friends, of which this is one :)
[5] There was one that was a wireless connector AND a pen drive. Isn't that so cool? If not useful to me :)