Phone Reminders

When my old Nokia n76 gave up on me, it kind of affected my rituals because I got used to taking note of things I need to do and buy on it. I also use it to take note of topics I want to blog about. As soon as the idea comes to mind, I immediately take note of it on my phone so I won't forget it. I got a few more notes on that phone that I can't retrieve anymore because the LCD screen won't display anything. I wanted to get it fixed but I felt it wasn't that practical because I already have a new phone. I spent weeks without my handy phone for note-taking and I had to resort to writing my notes/reminders instead on pieces of paper and placing them in my wallet just so I have it with me all the time. It wasn't the same, though. I don't want to leave my wallet on top of our counter here at our internet cafe so I still forget things.

I don't have a problem remembering things, but I feel that keeping my grocery and blog topics list isn't really one of my priorities so I just use my phone to remind me of them. Now that I've got a new phone, which I got for free after I won DJ Mo Twister's Twitter (@djmotwister) giveaway in February (this is like the Nth time I mentioned this on my blog. That's how thankful I am *wink*), I'm back to taking notes and reminders on it.

Now that my partner Mai and I are managing our own business (an internet cafe), it's a necessity for me to take note of things we need to buy for us and for our internet cafe. We also can't go out as much as we used to because we don't have anyone to man the internet cafe while we're gone grocery shopping. So, we decided on planning when each month we'll go out together for grocery-shopping, buying photo papers for our photo printing business, and buying other stuff we need for our internet cafe.

Last Wednesday, though, we had an unplanned grocery shopping because we were already at Victory Mall in Monumento. I only brought about Php 4,000 with me because we didn't really have plans on buying anything or eating anywhere since I was only attending the Glutamax Blog Contest Awarding in Eastwood (will post about it!). Mai wanted to buy rice wrapper at the grocery so we dropped by and we ended up with more things in our shopping cart. *LOL* At the counter, I kept looking at the POS (I think their printer was a tm-t88iv ) to check how much we'll be paying. Thank goodness the total was only Php 1,000+. After we paid for our items, I swore I'll bring extra money next time we go out just in case Mai gets the itch to buy something from the grocery. *LOL*

Anyway, going back to keeping notes or reminders on my phone, do you also have this habit? How do you remind yourself about grocery lists or topics you want to blog about?