Blogcoven

I’ve nearly always been useless with remembering dates, especially for non-repeating events and those I find out about more than a month in advance. I think the first time I used a calendar was ca. 1992, in middle school, when some church was selling small pocket monthly calendars for a fundraiser.

This continued through high school until I was given a proper Daytimer (large book planner thing, not actually the Daytimer system but the Franklin Covey ensemble). I lugged it around and used it religiously until I received my first Palm Pilot, which I fell in love with and used until the day it died. The next day I ran out and bought a new Palm, the Tungsten E.

When it died under warranty, Best Buy’s shoddy handling of the situation (making me wait six weeks to be told exactly what I’d said at the beginning: they couldn’t fix it and they’d just replace it) resulted in the end of my Palm addiction. The battery life was frightening and it was just too likely to fail for me to trust it.

My ability to remember things, however, had not improved over the years. I’ve been reduced to scrawling dates on the fridge white board and hoping I’d notice when something was coming up.

There is a web-based solution. 30 Boxes.

This nifty little app, apparently still in beta, will let you quickly add events, make them repeat (though I haven’t yet figured out how to set a time limit on the repeat, so it thinks I have to teach recitation Friday mornings forever), and tag them. So if I want to quickly find out what work or teaching or musical obligations I have I can highlight them.

Spiffy.

Meanwhile, I continue to yearn for a method for backspacing through carriage returns in the wp blog post field without making the field jump to the beginning of the entry. I thought upgrades were supposed to make things better…