Tidying my desk

So the weekend is fast approaching and I have decided that during the weekend I will tidy my desk.

It's a strange thing...

I have this resolve to deal with things as they arise so as to keep my desk neat and tidy. However many of the letters and brochures that clutter my desk at the moment fall into the category of interesting but complicated...

I hope that you know what I mean, things that you want to deal with but they require research or deliberation - so they get put on the desk, then it becomes a pile of things on the desk and then it becomes a nightmare... I get to the stage where I figure that if I leave it alone it will pass it's 'sell by' date and then I can just throw everything away...

Of course the downside is that you miss good opportunities.

So, I'm going to try something new...

I am a great devotee of a software PIM called ACT! which I've used for many many years (indeed before Windows back in the days of DOS) and from now on every piece of pending mail is going to get filed into an ACT! record called 'To Action' so that I can put in a dated reminder (to myself) to look at the particular item and action it...

Will it work? We will see...