Kayels has created 100 pages in Backpack since July: "What do I use Backpack for? What don’t I use Backpack for? I’m going to go scan my list of pages and give you some examples." Here are a few:
A page for storing site information...
A page for each of my blogs and sites. Each page then links to various sub-pages that include everything from the technical information and design specs to potential content to reference material or links to things that might be useful someday.
A page to "pass notes" to a friend...
A series of pages shared with a long-distance friend, where we can “chat” by leaving notes for each other, referencing links, images, etc.. It’s great to be able to write down that funny little thing while you’re thinking it or mention the weird web page you just found before you forget all about it. It feels like we’re a lot closer—kind of like passing notes in school. :)
A shopping page...
A “shopping” page, with a list of links to other pages. Some are big comparison pages, with lots of notes, links, and images. Others are lists of stores and sites—a page for antique stores, for example, or a page for great shoe sites...I also have a page full of links to discount and coupon listings, and when I get one of those special offers from a store (or a site like Backpack), I post it there, so I don’t lose track of it.
A page to collect medical questions...
A page titled “Dear Dr.,” where I make notes about changes in my health or write down questions I want to remember to share. (I’m recovering from breast cancer and have a few other problems, so it’s good to collect it all in one place and not have to think about it again.) It winds up being a sort of diary (albeit not every day) of my status, and I think it really helps to be able to see what’s really going on over time. It’s certainly more informative than my sitting in the doctor’s office, saying, “Oh, I’m fine, thanks. How are you?”
A page for various ogin info...
One is a bunch of lists of all my myriad accounts with their user names and passwords. I linked the titles right to the sites themselves, so I can just click and go. I need that page at least a few times each day.
A powerful home page...
The other is my home page, where I keep my lists of things to do. One is daily-repetitive, one is weekly-repetitive, and one is just one-off odds and ends I don’t want to forget. The repetitive ones are my favorites, though. There are blogs I want to check every day, sites I want to check every morning to see if the hardware I want is available at a refurbed discount yet (gotta act fast!), etc.. I put links in them all, so it couldn’t be quicker to just click, click, click my way through. There are even things in that daily list that aren’t Web-related. (Unbelievable!) There are two really wonderful things about those lists on the home page. One, I run across them all day long, as my Backpack site stays up on my screen. And, even better, two, the daily and weekly lists are reuseable! I just unclick everything and start again. That is *extremely* cool.
And there's more examples too. Thanks for sharing Kayels, that's some serious Backpack usage!
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