Virtual Post-It Notes

It is amazing how many free tools you can find on the internet these days (see my list of 150+ internet tools), I simply love stumbling across something that makes my life more productive—productivity doesn’t have to mean that you do more (though it often does) it might just equate to being more organized, thus enabling you to effectively meet and exceed your obligations (I really hate that word) which frees you up to do the things you love.

Your work tools don’t have to be super complex to be useful either and this  post is about a tool that I started to use a few weeks ago that I have found to be MOST EXCELLENT.

Like most people in today’s world I am on-line constantly and I use multiple computers daily in several locations and thus everything I do and record needs to be accessible from, well, everywhere (pray to the gods that the connection doesn’t go down). My virtual tool chest includes a cornucopia of on-line software programs, as an example I use many of 37 Signals  software including Highrise CRM to track customers (see “What is a CRM” ), Project Path to manage an assemblage of projects, Vitalist to organize my GTD matrix—the software manifesto goes on and on—my problem had been that I needed a place to easily capture information quickly (while on a phone call, tidbits of emails, jott down a quick thought, etc) that I could later feed into the appropriate tool—like virtual post-it notes.

Of course someone has created virtual post it notes and I’ve been using them for a few weeks now and I love the interface and simplicity. They are called Webnotes and signing up couldn’t be easier (you actually don’t even sign-up, the owner just lets you use the service for free—don’t you love the internet?). Create a workspace with a unique word and start using your custom url in seconds, access it wherever and whenever you need—simple and sweet. You can also share your notes with others by providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend.