Do you use your digital camera or your camera phone to take a picture of something you want to remember, instead of writing the information down? I have been doing this more often. I think it started when I was in a bookstore with my Mother. She wanted me to write down the name of a plant from a magazine. There was a photo of the plant as well. I got out the digi camera and took a close up so she could have the photo and the name too.

Since then I’ve used it to take photos of real estate signs on properties for sale which might be of interest to my brother. He buys, fixes them up and then sells them again. He is looking for a farm property which he would keep and I see many of them as I road trip along, looking for abandoned and derelict houses.

I also use the digi camera to take notes for me when I find a quote in a book, an author’s name on a book I’m too over budget to buy, and I’ve photographed something to remind myself of the idea it gave me when I saw it. Like seeing an old doll at a thrift store. Later I wrote about the doll and ended up using my photo as an illustration along with it.

Others are doing it. Some more practical than I am, using it to plan and organize things, like a collection of business cards. There are good ideas to be found. Read on…

The Ubiquitous Camera Phone –

Recent studies report that a majority of people who use their camera phones use them for ubiquitous purposes such as remembering a parking space or notes on a blackboard.

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