In 12 Tech Tools to Clear Your Clutter, PC Magazine offers up ways to tidy up your tech life. The piece recommends getting started with Backpack.
Wouldn't it be great to get those pictures off your digital camera already? Scan that stack of business cards and get them into Outlook? Transfer videotapes and camcorder footage onto DVD so you can actually watch your home movies? Arm yourself with a smartphone and take your e-mail, calendar, and contacts on the go?...Here are our picks for the best stuff to get you organized—and maybe even help you stay that way:
Getting Started
A good way to get inspired to clean up is by making lists. Backpack is an incredibly easy-to-use, Web-based organizational service that's like having an online loose-leaf binder to use as you please, creating checklists, setting reminders, and embedding important files and links on the page. It's so straightforward, intuitive, and versatile it wins our Editors' Choice award.
Declutter It is Jennifer Chait blog's blog about organizing. She says, "I’m big time into simple living and getting back to a less over stuffed way, less commercial way of life, and instead celebrating a more family and people centered approach to life."
In I’ve Decided to Backpackit, she talks about how she's using Backpack to reduce the amount of paper she uses:
To give you a brief description of what this tool is all about, it basically is a way to keep yourself organized on-line. It’s a great way to reduce the amount of paper you use. I am constantly scribbling little notes to myself and when I am in “work mode”, my desk can look pretty scary.With Backpack you can keep up with your schedule using their calendar and also use their pages to keep to-do lists, notes, ideas or whatever!
Do you want to fight clutter? Try Backpack.
