Time is a resource for teachers and other professionals. I find myself discovering thousands upon thousands of ideas to consider, avenues to follow, improvements to make, and things to read; leading to many tasks to be done.
Organising your tasks, prioritising and placing each in a day planner effectively can be vital for moving forward with major professional goals and plans.
I have been testing out Google's suite of tools, Google Tasks, Google Calendar and Google Mail. These three tools are linked in subtle ways. One is able to create a Task from a mail message, once a date is defined for the Task a calendar event is automatically created. Task that are rescheduled in the calendar automatically change the corresponding Task List item. A very simple and effective mechanism.
Centralising all my communications though is not as straight forward. I was hoping to have one technology deal with my DEC emails and contacts and my Google account, but that is still not clear to me.
Checking into my UbuntuOne
https://one.ubuntu.com/ I find that it now provides for 5 Gigs of space, more than double what dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/ offers. Now its a matter of utilising UbuntuOne more in my daily work, and avoiding those dreaded USB sticks.
In my search for a note taking and task management system I discovered a solution native to the Linux command line world, a tool called Yokadi
http://yokadi.github.com/index.html.
I'm still waiting for the new Samsung tablet to appear on the market, supposed to be the Samsung Galaxy Tablet 11.6. I have been convinced to purchase this over the new iPad, after a fair amount of reading about the two products and some trialling of the Galaxy 10.6 and iPad 2.
My iRiver IHP-140 (40 Gig) is coming to its final days. It lasts about 1 hour on battery now oh how I will miss it. What a fine piece of engineering, it has been with me for a good 7 years now. Still it offers things that new devices don't give you. 
