I had been racking my brain for an easy solution to be able to write down the ideas I think of in the shower. Then one day, I realized I already had the solution in the bathroom. I commandeered my daughter’s bathtub crayons, and now whenever I need to write something down, I write it on the shower wall. Plus my wife and I write each other love notes.
With my recent move to a paperless office, I decided I to start doing backups more consistently and to find an online solution for this. Previously, I had been using an IDE to USB cable
I found out about Mozy, an online backup service that comes with great software and allows you up to 2GB of free online backups. It has been working great for me. I split off my really big files into a separate folder, and keep those backed up locally in the fire safe, but 99% of my scanned files are now backed up online automatically at no cost.
I use ListPro as my main list repository. To quickly add items to my lists, I type “alt-space, tab, todo, tab,” and then whatever line of text I want to add to my todo list (groceries, tasks, etc.)
To accomplish this, I use Launchy with the below Autohotkey script. Inside Launchy, use the runner plug-in with the path to the below Autohotkey script as the command and “$$” (including quotes) as the parameter.
