At the suggestion in John Richardson’s blog post, I just put myself on the beta tester list for Foldera, a new way to orchestrate your symphony of input, as they say in their blog. This free, web based service will organize and integrate your email, contacts, documents, tasks, calendar, comments and IMs (there’s probably more too). The user sets up activity folders for each project or topic and Foldera automatically files all incoming information from all sources into the folders for you. Just a little mind boggling.
The company makes the very good point that in spite of the large selection of information management tools we have now, it’s a lot of work to make them work together and to manage them and even to remember where to look for all the info you’ve got. Foldera will take care of all that for you. And it does the filing! No one likes filing.
It will obviously be a terrific tool for collaboration, particularly when the collaborators are far apart and in motion. I look forward to seeing how it works for a sole operator like me.
Claire,
You've got it ... making the different information management tools work together is a pain. We'll be releasing beta accounts shortly, and I look forward to hearing how you find it as a sole operator. Welcome aboard.
Michael Sampson
Global VP of Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Foldera, Inc.
P.S. You've got a good thing going here ... I just love this topic, and the various ideas that people are having and sharing on being more productive. Consider yourself added to my RSS reader!
Posted by: Michael Sampson | May 11, 2006 6:48 PM | Permalink to Comment