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Hello. I'm Jonathan Cresswell. I used to blog here daily, but that fell through and now I store bits and pieces on here. I'm a journalist/web designer/madman. Read my actual blog or find out more about me on my website. I also tweet. |
With the amount people use technology throughout the day for communication, information and entertainment, it’s no surprise that someone who is on the computer 29 hours a day (hello!) organises their life mainly though digital means.
It’d be too easy to have a paper calendar, and also too easy to ignore. Instead, I tend to rely on the great god Google to keep my arrangements in check. I’d be worried about the amount of information Google have stored on me, but by this point they pretty much only don’t know the colour of underwear I’m wearing today so storing my diary on their servers hardly is going to make a big difference by now.
I’ve got nice colour coding for my University timetable, times that TV shows will up on iPlayer and the many attendances to highly important meetings in the pub. For me, Google Calendar is on a similar level to Facebook and the law of relationships. If it’s not mentioned on Facebook, it’s not official, and that’s just a fact of life. So in that respect, if it’s not on Google Calendar, then despite however many times you may have told me or I’ve said I’ll come, that doesn’t mean I will.
For however much that keeps my attendance at things at a just-about acceptable level, I’ve yet to put the same level of importance on tasks to be done. In the next few days, I should probably write an interview up, talk to a few contacts about a possible feature and solve a problem like Maria.
However, instead of that, my phone’s ‘tasks’ section currently contains the following:
I’ve not got round to doing any of these in the past 8 months since those items were added. I don’t think it’s going to change any time soon…
