Every day it seems like I'm moving more functionality from my memory (I mean the one on my shoulders, not on the mother board...) over to the cloud. A few examples - I once used to remember the phone numbers of friends and family. That's all gone into Plaxo (and my cell phone's contact book), and now I am lucky to even remember my own phone numbers. Or - I used to keep mental notes on to-do's to-call's, etc. That's all gone into my TaDa lists. Or - When I borrowed money or stuff I would make sure to burn that in my memory so that I would return it one day. Today I track it all in BillMonk.
While I consciously know that this probably has a long term damaging effect on my gray cells, the feeling of offloading stuff from brain over to the cloud is simply wonderful.
Sounds very "Getting Things Done"ish - get everything out of your head and written down somewhere so you can concentrate on the task at hand.
Posted by: Christopher Svec | October 13, 2006 at 10:16 AM