backups
Posted by heartland chris on March 17, 2007 at 06:59:20:

I try and keep a fair amount of my backups in a totally different building...generally Heartland wife's office. But, I also need to figure out a different way to keep organized...until about 15 years ago I could pretty much remember what I had to do, but work got more complicated as my middle-aged memory loss started kicking in. So, for 15 years I have been keeping a "to do" list in my notebook. I keep zero bookmarks: there are only about 5 web pages I visit daily (this, nws.gov, weather.com, scec.org for links to earthquake maps, a news page). For prints of scientific papers, I have had them by subject, but that can be hard to find, so I have to decide whether to file by author...which will not work if I don't remember the author. Researchers I work with use Endnote: I never have. I just have a WORD file where I typed in references by hand, and when I need a reference list, I just copy and paste, and cross-reference by hand. Maybe in the long run this is slower, but there can be a lot of time involved in making an Endnote list (although I guess I could get those of those I work with...).
Chris