Ideas from Mark Stout

Don’t we all start the New Year with optimism?  It is the time of the year the gyms fill up, only to dwindle back to normal traffic by late February. And while our thoughts today may go to parties, soon practical thoughts intrude. Like getting ready to do our taxes, paying off those Christmas bills and organizing ourselves a little bit better the coming year. I started using an app lately that helps me keep things straight.  It is a journaling app. There are any number in the Google Play and Apple App stores. I have not looked at many.  The one I’m using is not syncing right, so I’ll find another.  Even so, I’ve been impressed with its usefulness. With it I can jot a quick note. If I choose, it also records my location and the current weather.   Soon after I started using it, I had my once-every-10-years lower back spasm. I tracked when I took pain meds with it. I also track significant events in my day so that I can jog my m...

The young college student was startled to hear her college library was closing. “Midnight, already?” she said. She dreaded walking across campus to her dorm alone so late. Bad things had happened recently on campus. A guy emerged from a bar and realized he was further from his apartment that he had planned and had had a couple more beers then he should. The streets would be full of other drunken guys and he’d seen fights over trivial things. If you know anyone who has to take risky walks, there is a new class of apps to help keep them safe. I first read about Companion Safety App in a “Business Insider” article a few weeks ago. I took the unusual step of posting about it first at FamilyTechOnline.com because I was so certain it could help someone and I wanted to gain some feedback on this class of apps before writing about them here. Read the rest at FamilyTechOnline.com