WOW, thanks Simon, that looks awesome! |thumb I am getting a copy!

While you're at the BareBones site, take a close look at BBEdit if you're not using it already. Best text editor for the Mac, IMO. Been using it since it was released for System 6 in the early '90s. Gotta love a company who has "it doesn't suck" as part of their registered trademark.

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BBEdit is awesome. Been using it since the Mac Classic days.

/usr/bin/vi is the best text editor for the Mac and is included. :)

Yojimbo does look pretty nice though.

i use excel to track my domain info, statsremote is what i use for stats.

What I would love to see is a bit more automated way to track my recip links. I use a combination of Excel and Notepad for most everything else, but this is one area that drives me nuts!! Who honored my link request, and is it still live?

I'm an excel guy...I have a worksheet for sponsors, worksheet for urls, and worksheet for freesites that I post...it's working out for me pretty well...

One thing I use a lot is http://protopage.com -- I know there are a lot of widgety things flying around out there, but this one is the best for organizing to-do lists, bookmarks, notes, etc.

Some time ago I discovered that I would spend far to much time on analyzing traffic and sales stats. I mean, I would spend like about an hour every day on stats alone.

I can just recommend to every other webmaster to look into the need of stats. Do you really need to check them every day? Wouldn't it be enough to just do it once every week? I came to the conclusion that 3 to 4 times a month is more than sufficient. This saves me around 20 hours of time a month! Thats 2 working days .... a lot of time!

I use an OpenOffice Spreadsheet which I custom made. It has Bar graphs and everything. Revenue by day of week, date, week, and month. Pretty spiffy to me anyway. :)

I use Nifty Stats as well which does a decent job of breaking things down by sponsor (I have hundreds of sponsors now).

I have to figure out how to set up an formulas for doing projections and estimates by week, month, and year yet.... that is something that I wanted for a long time.

after 8 years i am still not organized....i can help it, i still write all on little papers, one time my hubby made me a whole thing to get track on all...i found it to diffecult, so i still use stats remote for my sponsors and look at my email for the rest, so to be real i even dont know what kind of domain names i have, i will notice when i get an email saying we have automaticly renewed this domain, stats remote is a big help for me, when to much clicks and less sales i go to the sponsor to check which sites the clicks came from, and thats how i keep track...i know i am sloppy ...but hey it works for me

I know there's no way of knowing, but it would be interesting to find out whether or not being organized means making more money than NOT being organized.

I'll bet there's no connection except based on whether or not a person is the type who NEEDS an organizational system to be productive. Or whether or not an organizational system that seems totally disorganized or barely-there to an outside observer actually is a very efficient means of organization for someone else.

Reading the replies from people who keep it really simple with a notepad, calendar, etc. and are focused enough to organize fewer things/only the things that count make me impressed. Prioritizing and keeping the minutiae out of your field of vision (identifying and keeping in mind the very FEW things you really need to organize) is probably the most important thing.

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As far as what I use to organize stuff for promoting other programs, I have lists of bookmarks in widget form with sponsor links & my id's with them, then I also have a text file for each site in a folder with link codes, notes, etc. that I can copy/paste.

I do a very poor job of recording and tracking the promos I do and spend very little time analyzing stats.

When it comes to analyzing stats I try to focus mostly on longer term trends. If I notice a substantial up or down trend with a particular sponsor I then investigate in more detail, and shift traffic accordingly based on what I find.

That said, I still keep an eye on the day to day numbers just incase something blows up (either good or bad) so I can react quickly if necessary.

Notepad for "to do" lists and RoboForm for passwords.

I like to keep it simple... :D

I use notepad.exe one for everything partners.txt, affiliates.txt, galleries.txt, submit.txt, you get the point... after I gather enough information I begin writing perl scripts to manage the files. My most recent creation is a structure of folders named after each domain, each folder conatains a nichename.txt containing the recip, with perl I can generate recip tables on the fly by adding the niche to the query string. Then insert the table into my pages. every recip is updated automatically because perl generates the recips with SSI. Maybe thats a little bit of over kill for what your looking for. but if your a programmer than it keeps you busy and organized!