For years, I used a Franklin Planner to plan and track daily activities because the company I worked for mandated it. In fact, they wanted employees to attend seminars on time management. After leaving the company, I started to question the cost of annual planner refills. I tried using less expensive Day Planners, but found them too small. I fell back on using online calendars such as the one included with Comcast email and Google Calendar. Finally, I came up with a system that works for me. I created a very simple Excel spreadsheet called DailyTasks.xlsx. It is formatted like this:
The days are grouped by month, with each month on a separate tab of the spreadsheet. It looks like this:
There is a tab at the bottom for each month.
This simple system eliminates a lot of stress because it's real easy to prioritize tasks in a day and put them into the order I want to do them.
I hope you find my blog interesting and useful. I intend to post information regarding PC usage and solutions that I have worked out over the years.
My Background
I am an ASP.NET Developer who has worked mostly with Web Forms (as opposed to ASP.NET MVC). I find Web Forms to be much closer to the VB desktop application environment. I like the concept of WYSIWYG in designing forms. However, it is getting harder and harder to design forms using a WYSIWYG approach due to overlapped, sliding panels, etc. Thus, I can see why MVC has become popular, but it requires a planned, programmatic approach to web development.
My experience goes back to the 1970's and includes COBOL, FORTRAN, Basic Plus (on DEC minicomputers), dBase, Clipper, Foxpro, Visual Foxpro, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic and ASP.NET. I have used both Visual Basic and C# for back-end code on various projects.
I have always opted for simple, straightforward solutions to problems rather than overly abstract, "technically-correct" solutions. However, the solutions I have found to various problems work correctly and are easy to understand, so hope you can benefit from my experience.
My handle is RealDude, so let's get real.
Categories and Posts
Posts on this Blog are grouped by Category. The categories that come to mind immediately are:
1. Backup Strategies
2. SQL Queries
3. Windows Server Setup for ASP.NET Web Apps
4. Problems Encountered and Solutions Found
5. Useful Software Applications
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