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.
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.
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.
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.
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