Date	Time	Project	Draft #	Text	Notes
Wednesday, February 21, 2001	11:25 AM	Increase Your Productivity	final	You can increase your personal productivity with a good project, activity and expense tracking system. By knowing how much time you spend on non-productive tasks, you can learn to keep these at a minimum and spend more time on productive activities. By using a system such as the one described here, you can easily keep track of all your hours and expenses. This will also make invoicing your clients and preparing tax records, much quicker and more accurate. |  | Activity & Expense Tracker helps self-employed individuals, or small businesses, to keep track of time and expenses spent on any number of projects. Writers, programmers or any consultant can easily record the amount of time they spend on specific activities and make notes on tasks and expenses. They can then quickly generate invoices and reports that can be printed or exported to word processing or spreadsheet programs. |   | Some of the features of this program are: Multiple Timers - you can quickly switch between projects by pausing and restarting timers for each activity; Quick Check - get an instant report on the number of hours spent on a project or activity; Customize background and button colors, as well as the highlight color; Generate reports and invoices for projects, activities and expenses, with customizable headers and footers. |   | Activity & Expense Tracker works well for small businesses or work groups too. Each person keeps track of their own time and expenses, exports the data and sends it to an administrator, who imports them all, and then generates invoices and time and expense reports. |   | Students, teachers, athletes and hobbyists can use Activity & Expense Tracker to keep track of time spent on their projects too. Volunteers will find the program useful for keeping track of time and expenses for tax purposes. |   | Users can try out the software free for 30 days, before registering it for only $35. Activity & Expense Tracker runs on most computers including, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Macintosh and many UNIX operating systems. |  | John Hedley comments, "As a former administrator of a 500+ seat enterprise project tracking system, I've found most of the single seat user shareware systems to be sorely lacking in coherency or practicality. This is a first rate, user friendly system." |  | For more information, go to http://about-the-web.com/aetracker/?pr3 on the World Wide Web or mailto:aet-info@about-the-web.com. |  | (c) Copyright 2000, Garth Catterall-Heart. All rights reserved.  | mailto:aetracker@about-the-web.com | http://about-the-web.com/aetracker/ - Time Management System  | Editor of What's New About-the-Web - A monthly newsletter   | featuring: Original Articles, Great Sites and Tips & Tricks  | mailto:whats-new-on@about-the-web.com to subscribe	this is the final draft of an article I wrote last year
Wednesday, February 21, 2001	12:50 PM	Getting Organized 	v1	Getting Organized in the New Year |  | Are you ready for the New Year? Have you given any thought to your new years resolutions? Would you like to make more money? Have more free time for vacations or enjoying friends and family? Getting organized can help free up that spare time and make you more productive. |  | Making lists can be an effective tool for getting better organized. Begin by listing everything you normally do. Then add to the list all the things you wish you had time for. Make sure that most of the following items are on your list: eating, sleeping, exercise, time with friends and family, inspiration, etc. |  | Prioritising your list is the next step. Realize that without the proper amount of food and sleep, that you will probably not have the energy to accomplish as much as you would like to. Taking time to exercise will also invrease the amount of energy you have and the mental clarity that you need to be at your maximum efficiency. |  | Next create a schedule for a typical week. For the next month or so, keep track of every minute of your day. Keep a journal of how much time you spend on your daily activities. Try to stick to your schedule, but even if you can't, make a note of how you are spending your time. At the end of each week, look over your journal and try to determine things you do that take up your time that may be less important than other things on your list. |  | Over the next month or so, make adjustments to your schedule, trying to include more important activities. The discipline of keeping a journal of your activities may be just what you need to get into a routine of doing things that increase your energy and productivity. |  | Do you spend a lot of time worring about your finances? Keeping track of your expenses may be a good next step. By tracking your expenses you can then prioritize the things you're spending money on. Then you can decide which things you can live without and not worry so much. This will free up even more time and energy for more important tasks. |  | If you have your own business, keeping closer track of your time on various activities and billable hours and expenses may increase your profits because you will be able to identify where you can spend your time most effectively. |  | Just remember that better organization plus the discipline to do the things that produce the best results, will yield increased productivity and more time for recreation and happy times. |  | ------------------ | 	Here's another article I wrote late last year.
Tuesday, February 13, 2001	9:21 AM	Valentines Letter	2	Dear Family and friends, |  | Happy Valentines Day! We embrace this opportunity to reach out and share some of the high points of our past year with you. |  | The year 2000 began with the official formation of SpiritWorks Small Dog Rescue. One of the biggest high points of the year was placing 42 dogs (including many puppies). Although a challenge at times (we had up to 15 dogs on the property at any one time) we were able to save a lot of lives and make a lot of people happy in the process. |  | Along the way we have made a few additions to our own collection of four legged "Children". Just before Christmas a year ago, we fostered a mother dog and her 6 puppies, one of which we kept and named Tara. She is a beautiful Chow and Australian Shepard mix and is a great love in our lives. |  | Also just before Christmas a year ago, we adopted a puppy from the Marin Humane Society which we named StarDust. She and Tara had great fun playing with one another until StarDust became too big for us to handle comfortably. So we placed her with a man and his mother in Placer county in October. |  | Last summer we were blesseed with the gift of a Deer Chihauhau which we named Precious. She is a darling little girl that loves to play with everyone, even the big dogs. We intend to breed her this summer and have lots of little Chihauahas to sell. |  | About three months ago we noticed two small dogs running up and down our country road. We observed them for several days before deciding to capture them and adopt them. They are very sweet brendal colored Chihuahas, which we plan to breed this summer. Shiva is a three or four year old male and Shackti is a two or three year old female. |  | So our current "tribe" consists of Fawn, our 10 year old MinPin; Yoda, our 7 year old Yorkie/Chihauhau; Precious; Tara; and Mr. and Mrs. Brendal Chihauhau. They are all a great source of joy for us. |  | In addtion to the SpiritWorks Small Dog Rescue, Dayadevi has spent considerable time volunteering at the Mendocino Inland Humane Society (a great source of leads for small dogs to be placed). She also has become very involved with the local metal detectors club. In fact last year she was the newsletter editor and this year she is the President of the club. |  | Garth has spent much of the past year developing productivtity tools to sell on the Internet. The first one, Activity & Expense tracker is a shareware product that was released in October and then updated in  November and December. He is currently working on a suite of tools, intended primarily for self-employed people, that includes a calculator, a task tracker, a contact manager, etc.  |  | Garth also continues to develop and maintain several web sites, including about-the-web.com, an Internet Guide for Newcomers; a web site of photography by Garth, a site devoted to A&E Tracker as well as several others for clients. If you know of anyone looking for some help in creating or modifiying a web site, he would be happy to talk to them. |  | Life on SpiritWorks Ranch, here in Redwood Valley, continues to be a blessing. It is a beautiful place filled with many trees and animals, including several horses (owned by people renting our pastures), rabbits (at one point we had over a dozen), about 50 chickens (who continue to produce about two dozen eggs a day, which we sell from our roadside, self-service egg stand. |  | We hope that you and yours are doing splendidly and that you come and visit us anytime you are in the area.	Final draft of our annual letter
