I’m a list maker. Always have been. If I don’t write things down, my world ceases to function as it should. Not only do I neglect to do key tasks, but I waste far too much energy trying to remind myself what needs to be done. More energy, in fact, than would be required to actually complete said tasks.

And then there is the sleep lost while the mantra “fail to plan, plan to fail” spins dizzyingly in my head.

Lets just say it’s not a pretty picture.

I’ve tried just about every method imaginable to keep myself organized and on track - from little notebooks, calendars, forms and to-do lists, to a remarkably complex system of color-coded post-it notes I developed over several months in a job I detested.

I’ve gone the electronic route as well, from using stock Microsoft Outlook applications to yet another overly complex system I developed at another job I detested. Or maybe it was the same one. I can’t recall.

The Blackberry is not for me, I know, because I’ve already given one of its predecessors - the Palm V - a try. Sure it was handy for entering in my list of to-do’s, but I rarely got any of it done, distracted as I was by my favorite application, Drug Wars.