Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Not much gardening going on for most of us in this weather, but it's
probably a busy time. We don't want to waste time looking for growing
information, or trying to find something we saw before that's important.
For some who may find it useful, here's one way to organize those things on
the computer. Make folders on the desktop and name folders within it for
saving links, notepad files, pdf files etc. It beats Post-it notes. I
couldn't do without this system. 

In Windows right click on the screen and select New and Folder.  Rename New
Folder for whatever it's to be (by *slowly* doubleclicking on the name).
Double click on the folder to open it and right click on the open folder.
Again select New and Folder, and rename the folder within the folder.
Double click that folder to open it. Drag anything to save in it from the
desktop to the folder. You can make as many folders as  you need within one
folder. Of course you can drag anything on the screen to the main folder
without making folders within it. Also you can just make more folders on
the desktop without adding folders within one folder. I run out of room on
the screen for that. 

Make folder names descriptive enough to help you go back and find things,
like cover crops or seasonal reminders or Joe and Jane's goats, whatever.
You're in control there. To save individual emails (in Courier) I click on
File and Save AS, and it saves it as a notepad file to the desktop. Which I
can then drag to any folder. In other email programs that'll work
differently. 

To save links I like to make a notepad and copy and past the urls into it,
sometimes with a descriptive line to go with it (my browser, Firefox,
doesn't save links directly to desktop). And save the notepad to the
desktop or to a folder. And give the notepad a descriptive name. I
constantly add to some lists and resave. This is my way with Windows XP but
the principles are the same with other systems.  I also save and resave
what's on the desktop regularly to CD for safekeeping. This has built up a
*lot* of material through four or five different hard drives over the
years, so it works and works well. Clear as mud? I'm sure others have
systems I haven't thought of, but this works and it's sooo convenient. 

ho... ho ... ho ... ;-(
paul tradingpost@lobo.net