Advanced organization and social interaction
Reason #3,045 that I want a Mac: Delicious Monster, which is software for people with supersonic OCD. I love using LibraryThing to keep track of all of my books, but damn that Delicious Monster makes me drool. Of course I don't have a Mac. Yet.
Someday.
In the meantime, my other new favorite (and free!) application for organization is Todoist.com. I am a habitual list maker and procrastinator, and so far this magical website has both satisfied my base need for list organization and for friendly (yet hard to ignore) reminders of the stuff for which I'm procrastinating. You can upgrade for $3/month to get extra task management perks like text reminders, if you like.
I also went back to del.icio.us to help me keep track of my bookmarks. When I initially signed up a while back, I didn't quite understand why I would need to bookmark sites on a web page when all the sites I needed were in my Firefox bookmarks. After a little more time in the Web 2.0 world, and probably largely because of the fun I had with tagging my books on LibraryThing, I finally get the need and wondrous delight that comes with tagging and organizing sites on a web page. I can access my bookmarks from work (even though that's not an issue at the moment), from my old and occasionally used laptop, from a friend's computer or from anywhere.
But as ooey-gooey as I am over these organization applications and their social interaction integration, I still have a hard time embracing MySpace or Facebook. They contradict everything I ever learned about privacy on the internet, no matter how private they say that can set your profile. And while I accept them as a part of 21st century media, I do not love them.
I have, however, fallen in love with Twitter. When I'm not blogging here, chances are good that you can find me twittering here, especially now that I have a small text message plan and a QWERTY keypad on my new phone (the LG enV2). I guess I'm not too old to be enticed by all this new stuff the kids are talking about these days.
