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...Whether you're a scraps-of-paper person or a Filofax fanatic, chances are you've developed your own way of organizing your calendar, tasks and contacts. Most of us, though, have holes in our organizational buckets. Things routinely fall out. And while your system might be comfortable, it should get a tune-up from time to time. "I thought I was a productive, well-organized person," says Kim Hagerty, CEO of The Hagerty Group Management Group, a specialty insurance company, describing how surprised she felt after a consultation session on David Allen's system. She realized there were many...
...Wait, February only has 28 days?” crazy Sofia B. Evans ’03 asked the guy next to her in Lit and Arts section as she checked her syllabus against her Filofax. “I totally thought I had another week in there.” Evans, who has a midterm, a paper and a bikini wax scheduled in the first week of March, spent the rest of section trying to remember that if 30 days has September, how many fucking days February...
...Whatever the merits of the case, the merest hint of a HotSync problem was enough to make my mind reel. For more than eighteen months now, ever since my Filofax got sucked into the vortex created by a cinema seat and my chronic forgetfulness, my Palm V has been my personal religion. Not only do I have every single piece of information important to my life stashed in there, I also have it regularly backed up on my PC for safekeeping. HotSyncing is so supremely simple - stick the Palm in its cradle, press a button, and you're done...
...away to Hong Kong from his native Fujian during the Cultural Revolution. Today, the family has built a small empire with interests in property and light manufacturing. Sher struggled for years to build a market for PDAs. Even today, manufacturers complain that their main competition in China is the Filofax. "We started from zero. A complete nothing," Sher says. Today the employer of 900, he likes to needle rivals, notably Hi-Tech Wealth president Zhang Zhengyu, a software engineer who got his start distri-buting Sher's products. "Tell Mr. Zhang: 'Please, work hard to improve your technical know...
...year, a new you, a new calendar. Be bold. No more adorable kittens or Far Side cartoons to count the passing days of the year. How compelling is a Filofax compared with the largely unknown splendor of "Beautiful Women and Trophy Fish" offered in the Angler's Fantasy calendar? If you like your beefcake with English muffins, try Prime Cuts: British farmers in the buff, with naughty bits cleverly concealed by corncobs or the strategically clutched farm animal. And for those who feel the need to heed a special call to nature, sit down with Outhouses of Alaska...