There’s about twenty million little tasks that I do on the computer that I don’t do often enough so that I never remember how the %$!$ to do them when it comes time to do it.

Examples:
1. In Paint Shop Pro, copy a particular color from one image to the palette so that I could
use it in a second image
2. Generate a quick report in Quicken that shows how much money I’ve spent at Border’s books during the last year
3. can’t remember any more of these, but there are more….

I created a node in Treepad (an outlining tool ) and called it “instructions.”

Instead of wasting time, making my way through the help file of whatever program it is, or scouring through the menus, and thus re-learning the stupid little task, I will just keep adding everything to this node.. I will probably move it to a regular text file when I find a good hard drive search utility that doesn’t “chug” too much.


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