[Electronics-Talk] Saving tid bits of information [was "Re: best system for phone numbers and addresses"]

[Christopher Chaltain]

I do something similar, but I just save email messages to various 
folders, so I can refer to them later. Sometimes I'll remember have 
saving a tip, and I can go back and find it, but then there are times 
when I'm looking through a folder thinking I wish I'd remembered I'd 
saved that tip in the first place!


On 8/5/19 1:39 PM, Rik James via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> Well, sure thing, Tracy.
> I am happy that something I said seems useful.
> But warning. Be careful, you could wind up with what I have, too.
> A file of something that is like 10 years old. And so you are sitting
> around, listening to a ball game and reading through a very old file and
> being reminded of things once again, and wondering why I had not utilized
> the information by now.
> Life is a funny, funny mess sometimes. But  then, messes can wind up as neat
> and tidy little piles, too, I guess. So, we press on. Here is to the future!
>
> Rik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
> Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Monday, August 5, 2019 6:05 AM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] best system for phone numbers and addresses
>
> Hi Rik.
> That's a smart idea, to have a file of useful tips from email lists.  I just
> leave them sitting in my mailbox, which is why I have tons of old mail.  I
> think I'll adopt this idea for myself.  Thanks!
> Tracy
>
>> My system, if I am not too embarrassed and low tech to call it that is
>> this.
>> Like David, I just have a file, that is modified constantly, and I
>> save it in Dropbox, and it is there to grab from my other devices.
>> I have Word, but for this and many other things, I just create Rich
>> Text Format files in Wordpad. I find its simplicity suits me and of
>> course the files are not as large in terms of the bytes.
>>
>> Now, I do kind of have several files for several categories of my
>> Contacts.
>> Like my radio people, my NFB people, and then there is just the local
>> throw it in the junk drawer that has everything from the plumber to
>> the dentist to the person who gave me the scoop on the best place to
>> buy a microbrew beer.
>> That file, is a total mess, and not alphabetized. Things are just
>> entered at the top and when I want to find something, I use the Search
>> feature.
>>
>> Why, I even have afile for things I copy and paste in from this list.
>> You never know when some of these wise cabal members can have a tip
>> that I might find handy one day.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rik
>>
>>
>>
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