Just right click on your PC desktop or in your Dropbox folder (or any other folder), and click on “New” and then “Text Document.” Then click on the new text document and change the file name to whatever you want as a simple reminder, like a post-it note, that sits on your desktop (or in your Dropbox or other folder) until you delete it.
I use this during the day to make reminders for anything I need to do after work (or before bed) that aren’t significant enough for my main work/personal to-do lists, and you can easily add items to the title of a single text file (to essentially make a “long” post-it note), by just clicking on it and adding to the filename.
- For example, on my way to work, I may notice I’ll need gas before driving home, and so I would create a file titled “get gas.txt” in my Dropbox folder when I get to work.
- Later, I will see an email reminding me about picking up a prescription, so I click on that file and add to the name so it says “get gas, refill Rx.txt”
- Then if I decide I want to research roof solar panels that night, I would change it to “get gas, refill Rx, solar panels.txt”
When done, I just delete the file (or rename it with new items). And because it’s in my Dropbox, I see it on every device I use.
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