>What do you do if you're lying in bed watching a movie when you remember that you need to schedule a meeting with X for tomorrow at 11am? I schedule it when I

>What do you do if you're lying in bed watching a movie when you remember that you need to schedule a meeting with X for tomorrow at 11am? I schedule it when I get in the office at 8 AM. >I also really struggle with what IM programs to keep on my work laptop these days. Medium of communication doesn't map cleanly onto work/personal contacts so I either deal with friends pinging me while at work or missing vital messages from people expecting a business response/having long professional conversations using a phone keyboard. My advice is to separate your work and friend accounts. You can have whatever messengers you need for work on your work laptop, but make sure that none of your accounts you share with friends are logged in on that machine. Same for your personal machines - only log in the accounts for friends. Then you don't have that problem. In most cases, all you need is an email address to make a new account, and you can slowly move all of your friends over to this new account where friends and work do not overlap.