[Typo3] How do you organize yourself

[Joe Frontman]

hi everyone,

this is not necassarily typo3 related but it is related to fellows who 
work on computers as coders, rooties, webmasters... generally everone 
who has everday tasks on the computer!

When working at the computer every day, I don't feel comfortable with my 
workflow.
There is such a mess in my folders and subfolders that I often don't 
find my files anymore, so I end up doing things twice.
For example when fixing code, it might happen that I have to do that 
same thing again some time in the future just because I can not find my 
files on my harddrive!

How do you keep your stuff organized? I am willing to learn, but it 
seems like that I cannot find good organizing programms.
It seems to me that a "home" forum could be a good idea, only accessable 
for myself, of course.

I know that it sounds a bit silly installing a forum on my homecomputer 
just in order to keep stuff organized.
This forum could hold different topics like, 1) domain 1b) error message 
1b) solution

It would be good to handle script stuff, but I also have daily jobs 
which I want to do. But I do not like the calendar functions of the 
forums for the daily task job.

In general I need ideas for the following scenario.

1) Software which handles and organizes scripts, data, error logs from 
certain dates, structure tree of topics and data
2) software which handles my daily tasks

please don't tell me that you use wordpad, because I have been using it 
ever since and I want to get rid of it.


thanks
joe