- Accidental Creative
- Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites
- Art of Non-Conformity
- Art of Readable Code
- Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Web Sites
- Beginning PHP6, Apache, MySQL Web Development
- Books to Read
- Bored and Brilliant
- Born For This
- Complete E-Commerce Book
- Content Inc
- Core PHP Programming
- CSS3: Pushing the Limits
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Defensive Design for the Web
- Deliver First Class Web sites
- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty
- Designing Web Interfaces
- Designing Web sites that Work: Usability for the Web
- Designing with Progressive Enhancement
- Developing Large Web Applications
- Eat That Frog
- Economics of Software Quality
- Elements of User Experience
- Epic Content Marketing
- Extending Bootstrap
- Flexible Web Design
- Flexible Web Layouts
- Happiness At Work
- Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- jQuery Pocket Reference
- Letting Go of the Words
- Making Every Meeting Matter
- Manage Your Day to Day
- Marketing to Millenials
- Monster Loyalty
- More Eric Meye on CSS
- Official Ubuntu Book
- Organized Home
- Perennial Seller
- PHP In a NutShell
- PHP Refactoring
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- PHP6 and MySQL Bible
- Privacy Policy
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- Responsive Web Design with HTML and CSS3
- Rules of Thumb
- Saleable Software
- Securing PHP Web Applications
- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile and Interaction Design
- Smart Organizing
- Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web sites
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up
- This Is Marketing
- UI and UX and Design
- Web site Usability
- Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
- Web Word Wizardy
- Well Designed
- Work for Money, Design for Love
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- Website Final Approval Form
- Writing Content For Your Website
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- Complete Book of Potatoes
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- Gardens and History
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- Light Candle Levels
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- Root Cellaring
- Things I Planted in My Yard
- Way We Garden Now
- 101 Organic Gardening Hacks
- Beautiful No-Mow Lawns
- Beginner's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
- Best of Lois Hole
- Eradicate Invasive Plants
- Gardening Books to Read
- Gardens West
- Grow Organic
- Grow Your own Herbs
- Guerilla Gardening
- Heirloom Life Gardener
- Indoor Gardening: The Organic Way
- Real Gardens Grow Natives
- Seed Underground
- Small plot, high yield gardening
- Thrifty Gardening from the Ground Up
- Vegetables
- Veggie Garden Remix
- Weeds
- What Grows Here
- Activities for Kids
- Baking & Cooking Tips
- Bertrand Russell
- Can I Get that on Sale?
- Cleaning Tips and Tricks
- Colour Palettes I Like
- Compound Time
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- Font & Typographical Inspiration
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- Icons
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- Photoshop Tips and Tricks
- Sketch
- UX and UI and Design Reading List
- Web Forms
Make a home for each family member to store their coats, bags, and shoes.
Divide your to-do list into four actions:
- around house - do
- phone = call
- at computer = write
- in car = buy
Consistency is key. Do things on the same day at the same time. Make a routine.
Create a brain clutter list
Set aside 20-30 minutes of interrupted time where you write down everything in your brain. Then assign tasks and put them on your to-do list.
Does neglecting it bring public embarassement?
Does neglecting it hurt organizational morale?
Is it significant as far as making a visual impresion?
Does the detail serve to inspire you?
If the detail is not part of a larger organizational plan, it is not a priority.
- Does the detail hold up organizational flow?
- Does neglect cause chronic stress?
- Is detail part of the larger picture?
Household Cleaning Tips
Clearing a surface makes a huge difference.
Start on the floor, clear everything. Put the stuff away, then move up to the next highest surface, work until it is clear, repeat until you reach the counters. On a counter, start right and move left.
Remove everything not needed in the room.
Take a photo of a clean bathroom and add to it a list of cleaning chores. Likewise, make a list of things that make the house look dirty. Do this list everyday. Also, map out the rooms of your house on a chart of 1-5 where 1 is well organized and 5 is needs lots of organizing.
Make a WHATZIT box for random stuff we need.
Toys not in their area, go to jail. If never rescued, it leaves the house. To get the toy out of jail, the child must do a good deed.
Keep creative toys, ones with multiple uses.
Good Habits
Do four things in the morning.
Do four things at night.
If you get it out, put it away.
Look, really look at your surroundings.
Recommended Books
Taming the Paper Tiger at Home - Barbara Hemphill
The Organized Parent - Christina Tinglof
Bibliographical Information
Smart Organizing
By Sandra Felton
2005, Revell Books, Grand Rapids MI
0-8007-5978-8 and 978-0-8007-5978-0
These are notes I made after reading this book. See more book notes
Just to let you know, this page was last updated Monday, Mar 08 21