I'm a month in...and treading water at least

While I'm glad I didn't do this straight out of college, it is difficult with a family. What is a good work life balance? Does that even apply as the economy continues to disintegrate? I don't know, I haven't had time since I started to do much else besides read. My hulu.com queue has 48 shows as of last night. The organization that I thought would work, hasn't but other things have. Here's a list:

1. Remember the Milk--This task tool is fantastic for organizing. You can create as many task lists as you want and they can have as many tasks as you need. You can expand on this by assigning due dates and tags to tasks to make search lists with specified criteria. I entered all my reading into class specific tabs with the due dates. I tagged them all as reading and created a search that found all tasks due within the next 7 days tagged reading. No flipping from syllabus to syllabus for me. 
2. Saving notes/briefs as HTML--This has been a partial success. I don't recommend it for notes as they usually need further editing. For case briefs it's ridiculously handy. You can open all you case briefs for a class in multiple tabs of a browser making it easy to switch cases when necessary. The killer feature is in the browser though. Increase your font size with ctrl|shift|+ so that you can read it at a glance while discussing the case in class.
3. Anki--this was a late find, thanks to lifehacker.com. It's basically a flashcard program for your computer, but is also availble for smartphones as well. You type up flashcards, and go from there. 
4. Cornell Notes Templates--I'm probably not using them quite right, but they are great for organizing class notes and reading notes.