Tech Month Monday #4 - Summary of progress and next month's focus

Whew, I am still organizing emails and photos but feel like I made a bunch of progress this month on updating and cleaning up my technology. I updated passwords, deleted lots of old document files and emails, organized what was left better, replaced an app that wasn't working, etc.

Made some decisions too.

1. I'm going to stick with Dropbox for backup for now and learn how to use it better/more fully.

2. I am going to do our taxes manually this year and mail them in but pay any taxes owed online.

3. I'm going to give my son back his old iPhone as it is too small for me and I don't really want to switch.

4.. I'm going to keep on top of deleting club emails once the relevant documents are saved.

5. I will remember to ask myself how I can use technology to do something! For example, I misplaced the address for mailing in an insurance privacy choices document and didn't want to sit on the phone trying to reach a human. Emailed our agent and he suggested scanning it and emailing it to him. Done.

Continuing to work on financial matters I finished reading our property and earthquake policies. We need to upgrade the property coverage so I have been emailing questions to our agent. I did see that our cost for that policy increased 47.6% but then the horrible past fire season impact has to be felt somehow. It is still quite affordable though.

Onward to March's focus which will be adding more things that bring me happiness to my activities, food, home, patio and wardrobe. I started with one more comfy pair of everyday shoes.

Tech month Monday #3 - I’ve got next to nothing

 Well I did lose two days to the blahs from the first shot side effects and then most of the rest of the week due to lack of interest lol.

I did move some photos into the correct year’s folder and made a big dent in sorting emails about the club into category specific folders. Still have to finish that and delete those not needed.

I found I have an email from Dropbox with links to info on how to use it for all sorts of things so need to get to that. 

Several of you gave very helpful and specific suggestions about backup storage. Much thanks. Still undecided.

I did say at the start that this was likely a two month project due to low motivation but it needs doing. Have added to my list creating a back up of phone numbers in case they aren’t accessible on our phone during an emergency.

We have been having a big think and some serious discussion with our younger son about w(at the science says about our visiting them once we are two weeks past the second shot. We are all researching whether we might put them at risk of being infected ( could we still get infected, not know it and transmit it?) as they are too young too get vaccines yet. And then there is the question of whether or no that Grandgirl could infect us and would we get sick? Pending more data we are all thinking we would all be very low risk as we are going to continue our low risk, protective measures lifestyle. It is the S. African and Brazilian variants that seem to pose the most questions right now. Progress though.

Tech month Monday #1

 Where to start late adopter that I am? I went with deleting unnecessary saved document files and folders, making sure my password backup list was current and printing missing tax docs. Finished the last two action items but not the first although made progress.

Exploring saved documents (but not photos yet) and deleting as much as possible is my first step in creating better back up. The computer is old but runs just fine and has plenty of memory so no problems there. Don’t need those 5 year old Hubby’s work document drafts or pre-retirement planning stuff saved and backed up though. And on and on. Didn’t finish but I did mention that Tech month might be two months long!

Now does anyone know how to delete an old app from an android phone? Got to look that one up!

Money Monday wrap up and Moving on to Technology

 My focus in January was on finances and I made it through most things on my list.

 I still need to do our taxes I’m ready to move on to dealing with tech issues in February. I did decide to give TurboTax deluxe version a go so that is what I will use once all the info needed is available. Since it is online it fits in with February’s focus.

So here are my questions regarding technology.

1. What do you use to back up files?

2. How do you keep up with organizing emails and documents? And passwords too?