Tag: thinks to do

getting closer to the perfect scheduling app

January 25, 2018

My friend Chrysoula (you should read her books) notified me a couple weeks ago about this to-do/scheduling app she’d found, that she thought seemed like it had many of the features I’ve been looking for in a scheduling app. It’s called SkedPal, and it’s…it’s pretty good, guys. It uses time blocking, which I’m…getting the hang of… :) …and it’s pretty flexible, in that you can plug a bunch of projects in and it arranges them into your work time block (or whatever you assign it to). You can teach it…

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international consortium of Getting Stuff Done

March 27, 2017

Nearly 8 years ago now I started the ‘war room’, a chat room for writers to log into and keep each other company while we write. It’s a combination of support group, inertia-breaker, guilt-inducer, and social space. People log in from all over North America and Europe (I don’t think we have any other continents checking in), and it works really well. (Michelle Sagara dedicated the latest Elantra book to us. ♥ :)) I wish I could figure out a way to make something similiar for more off-line activities work.…

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so very very very many thinks

October 14, 2016

– buy better sugar – make fudge make MORE fudge if there’s time – shower – pincurl hair – pack M&M – pack RAVEN HEART – pack CHANCE – pack fudge – pack jam – pack dress – pack shoes – pack nylons – pack sturdy underwear :) – finish laundry – fold laundry – put laundry away if we’re really ambitious – finish setting up phone – eat something – chop up more crabapples – put the frozen ones into bags so i have room to freeze the new…

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a hard time gathering myself

October 7, 2016

I’ve been having a hard time gathering myself to blog. Part of it is that I’ve been very busy (I got everything on the last post’s to do list done and a great deal more), and part of it is that I’m very tired. It’s been a terribly emotional year and as I’ve said to a few people, we’re not really so much scraping the bottom of the barrel as trying to claw our way back up to its great height. So this is what I’ve been doing instead of…

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there’s a million things i haven’t done

September 26, 2016

– mail voter registration stuff – go over AF galleys *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAY* – shake down the crabapple tree (again tho) – process crabapples (again tho) – make crabapple jelly (again tho) – perhaps make crabapple jam (again tho) – but just you wait – make raspberry jam for octocon/etsy – make strawberry jam for octocon/etsy – make hot fudge for octocon/etsy – order this wig? for octocon because reasons nah – order/have made a Stetson Aviatrix (Peggy Carter’s hat) – email isbn info to isbn lady – email harry for…

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