how are others who work from home staying organized?
I work from home evenings and weekends, and I have a day job (and a five-year old son), so I have to stay organized or it all falls apart pretty quickly. Any email I want to keep for any reason gets forwarded over to a “private” Gmail account (that is, one I never use for anything else or hand out the address for, so the only messages that ever end up in there are the ones I send). I love the Gmail search, which has never let me down yet when I needed to go back and retrieve one of those emails quickly. For notes, article ideas, etc., I use a software package called Surfulater. It allows me to save entire web pages or selected portions thereof, clipboard cuttings and my own original notes and to categorize them in various ways, cross-reference them as I see fit, and add my own notes. I would be lost without my Surfulater. I’ve got four thumb drives I use to carry files back and forth between home and work (including the backup copy of my Surfulater database, so I can be sure to stay in
