DISQUS

Great stuff about caregiving. It's not a profession for me, but occasionally I do it. Thanks for your brilliant thoughts!

I've written up a set of three amazing but simple tools for saving time (the "3 Ps") that can double or triple your productivity. Imagine saving 2-5 hours a day! Check out these systems at this link to my site:

http://www.thesandystudio.com/TSS/3_Ps.html

And none of them require a computer! (though you can use one, if you like) Thanks, Chris, for this great opportunity to share. Enjoy!

--Sandy

I like the idea: accretion of knowledge over a days' worth of meetings; that increases the value you can provide to the remainder of the people you'll be meeting with later in the day. Smart!

Thanks for a fascinating read, Chris and everyone else.

I use 5 backup systems:

1. TimeMachine

2. SuperDuper (run nightly to clone my MBP to an external Lacie Rugged, and my photos drive to a separate external Lacie Rugged)--so that I'm never a day away from a full MBP HD restore (and full restore of my photos drive)

3. Weekly offsite swap of the 2 Lacie Ruggeds in #2 above with a second set (so that I always have an offsite restore less than 2 weeks old)

4. Daily backup via Backup 3 of settings, dock, dashboard widgets, etc.

5. MobileMe (for 24/7 near-real-time syncing of email, iCal, bookmarks, address book)

I'd like to remind households/people with more than 1 Mac: if you have a bootable clone backup available (from SuperDuper or another program) for a machine that went south, take the clone to the working Mac, plug it in, hold down the Option key, and turn on the machine. This is the "mountable drive boot" option. You'll get a boot choice. Choose to boot from the external (the clone backup of the other, fried Mac), and boom, you're seeing everything from your fried machine now on a working machine.