A little less complication....

Have you ever felt like your brain is a traffic jam, like Jessica does?
I have a few solutions that may work for you.

As I set out to really grow this tiny blog of mine, I knew that between the full time job, the full time hubby, and the double full time baby and pets... I would need a way to keep things organized and easily accessible.

Exhibit A: We house all our photos and music and such on our desktop (does anyone know what that is anymore?), the iMac. Once I started blogging all the time and commenting non stop on other blogs, joining stumbleupon, blogfrog, etc... I was in the back room alone a lot and my hubby missed me.

This led to...the new laptop, the MacBook, so that I can blog in the living room amongst the brood.

How - without a big time suck, do you get the photos and documents from A to B?

Thanks to Donald, I now have - Dropbox.

You install it in about 2.5 seconds on each computer. You put the photos in the dropbox, go to the other computer and whala - in the dropbox. ALSO - you can login online and get to the dropbox too, so you really can access what you need from anywhere. You can add documents too. It's awesome and F-R-E-E!

Exhibit B: Blogger, as happy as I am with them, makes me nuts because if you create a draft, come back the next day and post it - it posts it as YESTERDAY (or the day you started the draft). What? So when doing Friday Face, I would look a little short of cards in my deck to post it on Thursday, no?

My solution?

Evernote

I have been using Evernote for some time to make my Target lists, reminders, etc from my phone (there's an APP!) Now, I keep a running blog idea note, and I also write my drafts on it. That way, again, no matter where I am, I am copy and paste into blogger, polish it up and post it. I can write from my phone while in the Dr's office, in the car with Lee, waiting on a meeting to start. Pretty nice. Also F-R-E-E.

I have tried and tried to think of a 3rd something, but I just can't. These 2 things have helped me so much in the last month. I hope you like them too!