The O.C.D. Experience is all about creating effective and functional ways to organize.  With the millions of apps, photographs, emails, and so on that are being circulated every day, there are several tools to help you organize and create discipline in your digital world.

Photography:

Picasa is O.C.D. Experience’s favorite program to share, edit, and organize photographs.  Picasa lets you: 1) Create Web Albums where you can organize and produce photo albums based on a specific date, trip, or event. 2) Share with friends or family members via email. 3) Search for photographs in various categories you might use for projects, backgrounds, or art. 4) You can also input facial recognition tagging to find your friends in an instant and sort by friends.

Travel:

Tripit – Travel Organizer is an efficient tool to keep your travel plans in order.  When you register for free,  Tripit links with your email account and helps organize your itinerary for upcoming trips, future plans, and more.

Personal Organizers:

Family Organizer is a free app that allows you to share your grocery lists, calendar entries, daily tasks, recipes, photos, and more with your family members.  Sign up for Family Organizer here and enjoy the dashboard it provides that displays each feature in an organized way.

Daily Tasks:

When you don’t have a pen or paper and need to write something down why not record it? Quick Voice Recorder is perfect for taking notes, making lists, recording ideas, and anything else you want to keep on record.  Download Quick Voice Recorder for free here.

Budgeting:

Ace Budget Life helps you keep track all of your spending and personal finances by creating categories for your different spending types.  It is useful for scheduling transactions, creating recurring transactions, and much more. Check out more information about it here.

Fitness:

Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal is an easy way to keep track of your food & water intake, calorie count, and workout time, while promoting a healthy lifestyle.  What’s great about this app is that it saves your recent food and calorie intake and groups them into specific categories such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Map My RUN is amazing for planning and mapping out your running route.  It records your running distance and can calculate how many calories you’ve burned during your run.  What the O.C.D. Experience likes about Map My RUN is that it provides a variety of trails such as road, off trail, cross country, wood trail, and more, making running always a new adventure.  Find out more about it here.

With these O.C.D. Experience tips for photography, travel, personal organization, daily tasks, budgeting, and fitness, you will definitely have all your digital applications organized and in order!

After you’ve followed all of the tips the O.C.D. Experience has for you here, it’s time to have a Spring Swap Party!

Get together with a bunch of friends right after you’ve cleaned out your closet for Spring. Make some cute, inexpensive flower arrangements and heat up some appetizers. Invite your friends to bring some of their own favorite treats for that extra flare. Hit up the local Costco for cheap drinks and don’t forget the ice.

Bring your favorite clothes and make sure you ladies are trading with like sizes. Separate shirts, pants, dresses, jackets, etc and then start going through the piles. You can take as little or as much as you want, but only take what you are going to wear! It is sometimes fun to go the extra mile and do gift exchanges. For that you will need to write up numbers and then draw to see the order you will be picking.

The lowest number goes first and has the chance to pick any gift on the table. After that the person following in numeric order can choose the gift before them or a new one. Once a gift has been taken twice it is no longer in play. When the last person to draw’s turn comes around they can choose any gift from the lot that is still left and then it is back to person 1 who can then pick any gift back from anyone, excluding one’s that are no longer in play.

About this time you might be a little tipsy and as you ladies like to do, show off your new clothes. Hold a fashion show with all your new swapped clothes!

When you get home the first thing you should do is organize your new clothing into your closet. Don’t drop it on the floor, don’t leave it in a pile to be dealt with later, Organize & Create Discipline. You’re boyfriend, fiance, husband or partner will be thankful and so will you the next day when you are picking out clothing.

Spring cleaning can be fun, entertaining and organized. Just add some O.C.D. to it!

-O.C.D. Klosky

Unsure of what to give away? The O.C.D. Experience has some helpful tips for you!

1. When was the last time you wore it? If it’s been over two years its time to give it away.

2. After you go shopping its always a good idea to clean out your closet and sift through the things you haven’t worn in a while.

3. How long have you had it for? If you’re debating on keeping a raggedy old black t-shirt with holes in it that you’ve had forever, it’s time to give it up.  You will find another one.

4. Is this thing something you wear or use a lot? If not, ask yourself if it is really worth keeping.

5. If you think twice about it, give it away.

Don’t know what to do with all your Spring Cleaning giveaways??

The O.C.D Experience is here to help you out!

There are several places you can bring your clothes, accessories, bags, jewelery, you name it.

While there are a bunch of places like Good Will or Salvation army, which are great places to donate, there are also many second hand stores that you can make a profit out of your Spring Cleaning giveaways.

Here is a list:

1) Second Time Around

http://www.secondtimearound.net/

2) A Second Chance

http://www.asecondchanceresale.com/Default.asp

3) Beacon’s Closet

http://www.beaconscloset.com/

4) Buffalo Exchange

http://www.buffaloexchange.com/

5) Ina

http://www.inanyc.com/

Happy Spring Cleaning!

Check out this O.C.D. Recommendation from IQTELL:

“We’re big fans of Evernote – it pioneered the way to capture and store information on the cloud. We especially love the way it can store and retrieve information – clipping entire webpages, recording text, audio and video notes, and much more.

But until now, that’s all that you could do – collect and retrieve information. Saving something to Evernote, in most cases, meant that it became the final resting place for your precious data. Today, we’re proud to introduce our integration with Evernote. When you login to your IQTELL account, you’ll notice that Evernote is fully integrated throughout the Workspace. All you need to do is click to authenticate and sync your Evernote account to begin to leverage IQTELL’s powerful features.

We’ve chatted with many IQTELL & Evernote users; here are some great examples to leverage both of these awesome applications.

#1 Using Evernote as a GTD collection bucket

Throughout the day, you can use Evernote to collect almost anything – snap a picture of a receipt or business card, record an audio note to listen to later, clip webpages and other content for study, work or research.

Once you come back to IQTELL, you can begin to process your Evernotes into your Actions, Projects, Someday, and Tickler folders. You can easily create an action from meeting notes, link notes to existing projects – the sky is the limit!

#2 See all your Project Information in One Place

I love creating Projects in IQTELL since I can include so much useful information: actions, phone call & meetings, files, emails, and now, all my Evernotes can be easily added as well.

#3 Add reminders to your Evernotes

Reminders are the perfect way to effortlessly leverage IQTELL’s abilities with Evernotes. Easily set up email or SMS reminders for any Evernote.

#4 Add Evernotes to your Calendar

You asked us to let you add Evernotes to your Calendar, and we’ve listened. Now, with our 2 way calendar sync, you can easily add Evernotes to your Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook Calendars. It now only takes one click to see your event-related notes.

#5 One Search.

We love Evernote’s search capabilities. Now, within IQTELL, you can use our search to scan across all your email accounts, your IQTELL Workspace and…Evernote.

#6 Smart Tags™

When you sync your Evernote account, all your Evernote tags are brought over as well. You can now use those tags (or create new ones), and apply them to emails, actions, projects and more. Gone are the days where you have to manage tags and labels across all your different applications. And since it is a two-way sync, any tags created in IQTELL will be visible and usable in your Evernote account.”

Article from IQTELL Productivity Blog: http://iqtell.com/2012/03/iqtell-and-evernote-%E2%80%93-together-at-last/

Organize & Create Discipline

Pretty, yes. Organized, possibly. But effective, tell me….Do you think this person likes to collect books, is a avid reader or has a taste for creative art?

Can art be organized, can organization be art, can organizational art be functional?

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