Friday, February 02, 2007

There is nothing permanent except change.

“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus quotes (Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, 540-480BC)

It is the most truest (is the emphasis enough) of all I have ever heard. My blog shows three suggested downloads which I don't use anymore. The first is "Post it notes for PC" which at one point of time seemed to be very important for carrying out my day to day work. The second is “FireFox extension for Time Management” used by me to track time spent on web (am I spiderman). More a tool to restrict my surfing time. Finally “A43 file manager” a replacement for windows explorer. That was expected to save time for me in opening command windows and searching file within a folder.

I am not using any of these today. Being organised does help. As I started to streamline processes in office by prioritising the tasks according to the urgency, pendency and importance monetarily or information wise thing began to fall in place themselves. Once the back logs are set right it is now really possible to go ahead of schedules by over a week. This has done away with the use of sticky notes on the screen.

This was a more simple one. Time management is done by me for the whole of my time. Not just surfing time. Respecting of the priorities I have set gave me little time to be on the web (mostly during lunch time). So I need not be looking at the bottom right corner of the browser to see when to stop ( usually how much time has been lost ).

The file manager is still installed in my PC, though it is not in the quick launch anymore. The credit goes to “Open command prompt here” tweak by MS. Moreover being organised has some thing to it. Now I don't need to search for files every now and then. I know where they are.

So why this title. Because only a few months ago I thought these tools to be indispensable, now completely dispensed with. And more changes are expected too. That's why.

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