What Google Has Done To Me!
November 25th, 2009Well, in another attempt to get organized (my files, my tasks, my projects, my etc) I came to a stunning conclusion:
I NEED A GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE FOR MY STUFF!
I really do. And you probably do too.
You know. You start filing stuff, inputting client and contact info to your choice of contact manager (Outlook, etc.) and start to realize, “There’s a whole lot of stuff that I need to be able to find that this file system does not accomplish!”
I’ve tried for YEARS to read and learn about systems that put my personal “stuff” into the right “bins” so that I can call upon the data, know what to do, etc.
And it has NEVER worked.
Well, I thought, for a brief second, I had the solution. We’ve built a custom database for www.LetsGoBanners.com that allows us to through-put our entire system. Well, I started using our company database to manage everything I could. But when I start to dive into my personal info, I realize (as Google has,) that you simply need fire-power to be able to key-word all the relevant data. A simple “Chris’ ‘To Do’ file” doesn’t work. No way. Because within Chris’s file, there are 200 or 500 relevant ideas, contacts, information, tasks, projects, etc.
I started trying to organize all this info when it occurred to me, “Why not have a Google engine to find all this stuff?” Great question, but you have to be able to encode all the data and content to be able to spider and find it. Which is exactly why Google is worth BBBBIIIILLLLIIIOOOONNNNNNSSSS. Billions. It takes alot of programming and entry to be able to organize this stuff so that you can get to it in a micro-second. Which is exactly what Google does.
So WHY can’t we have Google send out a few interns to organize our personal stuff? And then we could use our Google Toolbar to find our stuff, or even better, have our Google Organizer send “pop ups” to remind of our personal data?
This would be really cool. Because the old “file it system” simply doesn’t work with my experience with using Google.
Let me know your thoughts!
Chris