My present System

• Navigating the computer
• Executor (command line launcher - may be replaced by Dash in the future)
• QtTabbar and QtAddressBar (make the windows explorer accept tabs and show a clickable browsing history)
  
• Navigating windows
  
• Autohotkey script "iswitchw - Incrementally switch between windows using substrings"
• Scratchpad inbox
  
• Ted Notepad (Scratchpad/temporary inbox/note taker I use to write the actions I am performing or intend to perform as soon as possible. Each action is not just flagged done and undone, but is incremented of one step at a time until it is done(for example I would write ----/writing article on my system, the dashes show in how many steps I did it, and the slash means it is finally done. This notation allow me to stop at any time and still knowing the task is "in the doing" but still not achieved). This is the big difference from the traditional todo list. It is a way to avoid losing track when being interrupted, like a bookmark of my day so I can alway go back to what I was doing, or what I intended to do. It is becoming the essential buffer of my system, and serves also as a log journal since I don't delete what I write.) I access the window very quickly thanks to the iSwitchw autohotkey script.
  
• Calendar/reminders
• Google calendar
• Remember the milk for the reminders I need to send with my cameraphone.
• Information niches and backup
  
• Wikidpad (taking notes and tracking projects, and projects actions lists, brainstorming, journaling, centralizing and organizing all my useful information, making it searchable and being able to access almost instantly any page to check/append information on it).
• Gmail (for storing all my mails, backup small and medium size files, storing notes sent from the cameraphone, keeping track of my expenses (I take the reciepts picture with my cameraphone and send tehm to a dedicated Gmail account, otherwise i have the same account for everything else)). I have measured with MeeTimer where my online time goes and almost everything is negligible compared to the time I spend in Gmail.
  
• Writing
• Google docs for writing the blog, and live journal for publishing. The first advantage of google docs is the auto-save. Of course the organizing features are very useful too.
• Google Spreadsheets for writing timelines of stories I am working on.
  
• Internet
• Firefox portable with the VIMperator extension (allows to control firefox exclusively with the keyboard)
• Learning / reading
  
• Supermemo2004 (mainly for learning languages but I also use it for Incrementally Read a lot of articles I am interested in but are too overwheling to read in one go)
• Machine Age Reader (for reading e-books on the computer. The software keeps track automatically of where I left off, so I can read a lot of books in parallel).
• Music
• Foobar2000 (I am used to the + and - keys for changing the volume, and the soft is quick and not bloated like all other audio players. Well, iTunes has a nice filtering and I still use it at home).
  
• Other software/hardware I use but are no longer so useful
• Winpenpack (very nice software for portable apps. Has a very slick way to organize, search and launch them easily, as well as browsing the drive, or even the computer with cascading menus. But I am now using Executor most of the time)
• Xplorer2 (I still use it but won't need it anymore when I will be used to navigating the computer with the command line launcher)
• Liquid Story Binder (Very nice software for writers. The advantage over others softs is the organizational tools. A file can be used in an illimited number of lists or hierarchies without being duplicated. It can then be accessed from different places/projects/indexes. I would not have switched to wikidpad if it was for the instant incremental access to pages. For someone who is not a keyboard freak Liquid Story Binder has no real weak points, and I like the design different of the traditional microsoft windows one, so we can "stay" in this software and feel cool for writing or journaling/organizing. It is still in development though the support is nice)
• Ring binder (Nice to be able to open it flat and reorganizing page order but still not so easy to use... I shoult try a Circa sone day)
• Traditional Paper notebook (used a lot of them, tried to index them, using Cornell notes, using tabs, using stickies etc... but rapidly becomes cumbersome, like the binder)
  
• Hardware
• Lenovo Tablet PC (to draw, and make animation/movies anytime, anywhere)
  
• USB drive (I keep all the software and information written abovee on a small USB drive)
• Hipster PDA (Use it when I can't use anything else for quick notes, sketches etc...)