1. PC Sticky Notes – I keep a relatively icon and uncluttered desktop with one exception: PC Sticky Notes which came with Windows 7. On my ipad, I use Infinote. These come in handy to keep track of appointments, write down book titles or website names, homework assignment, to do lists, or random notes to yourself just like their paper counterparts, only you don’t have to worry about losing them.

2. Cell phone memo pad – Most of us take our cell phones with us everywhere. I use the memo pad feature as a quick way to jot things down when I’m out and on the go, especially and I may not always have a pen and paper handy. I’ve also used it to make grocery lists, deleting each item as I pick it out.

3. Text Messaging – I use it when I’m traveling with another person, especially when parking in parking garages and it’s going to be awhile before I’m back to my car, I text the location of the car (like lot 3 row 4) to the other person’s cell phone. That way, we both have it. I’ve also texted plans to people so we both have reminders as its then in both of our cell phones.

4. Google Calendar – This one is time consuming to set up at first if you have a lot of things in your schedule, but you are able to put in meeting s, appointments, plans, whatever you’re doing. You can then access it anywhere you can access your Google account. It will also send emails to remind you of upcoming things you have scheduled in there, so if you’re at a computer a lot or have a Smartphone with email set up on there, you’ll receive reminders.

5. Google Documents – What I love about this is it’s accessible from any computer, regardless of the operating system. I can work on document on a PC at school, then work on them on my ipad in a hotel room 3 days later, and then, again on my laptop when I get home. I use them primarily for research at school and writing projects. I’m able to put in links, snippets of articles, summaries, outlines, and have access to all of it, no matter where I am or what I’m using.

Article written by Staff Writer, Agnes Reis

Agnes is a nursing student in Minnesota. She was diagnosed with CFIDs in 1999 followed by fibromyalgia the following year, along with lifelong allergies, asthma and migraines. She can be found at brigid22.wordpress.com or @brigid22 on twitter, but cautions twitter followers that there’s a heavy dose of sports and nursing along with the spoons.