Checklist for senior citizens

 मी एक सूची / चेकलिस्ट देत आहे. ती प्रामुख्याने सिनियर सिटीझन्ससाठी असली तरी इतर वयोगटातील व्यक्तीनाही तिचा उपयोग होईल असे वाटते.

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पूर्ण नाव Full name

जन्मदिनांक Date of birth

रक्तगट Blood group

ओळख पटविण्यासाठी खूण Identification mark

इमर्जन्सी संपर्क क्रमांक Emergency contact

आधार क्रमांक Aadhar number

पॅन क्रमांक PAN number

निवडणूक ओळखपत्र क्रमांक Voter ID

पासपोर्ट क्रमांक Passport number

ड्रायव्हिंग लायसन्स Driving license number

UAN क्रमांक UAN number

ईमेल IDs (पासवर्ड्स लिहू नयेत)

फॅमिली डॉक्टर्सची नांवें आणि संपर्क क्रमांक Family doctor names and numbers

दीर्घकालीन व्याधी असतील तर त्यांची नांवें आणि घेत असलेली औषधे Long-term illness and ongoing medication if any

एखाद्या गोष्टी ची ऍलर्जी असेल तर ती माहिती Allergies if any

कोव्हीड होऊन गेला आहे का Tested positive for Covid?

फॅमिली वकिलांचे नाव आणि संपर्क क्रमांक Family lawyer name and contact information

फॅमिली अर्थ सल्लागारांचे नाव व संपर्क क्रमांक Financial advisor name and contact

फॅमिली गुरुजींचे नाव व संपर्क क्रमांक Family priest name and contact

बँक खाते - Bank information: 

ब्रँच नाव व अकाऊंट क्रमांक Branch names and account numbers

डिपॉझिट खाते Deposit account details

NSC, FD, RD वगैरे असेल तर त्यांची माहिती

लॉकर्स माहिती Locker information

(पिन क्रमांक लिहू नयेत)

Assets

स्थावर मालमत्ता: उदाहरणार्थ फ्लॅट, शेतजमीन, प्लॉट 

जंगम मालमत्ता अंदाजे रोकड, सोने, शेअर्स (अंदाजे मूल्य)

Insurance

आयुर्विमा पॉलिसी माहिती 

Term insurance 

कार/ बाईक क्रमांक व इन्श्युरन्स माहिती

लोकांकडून पैसे येणे असतील तर नांवें, रक्कम, दिल्याची तारीख

Liabilities

बॅंक लोन्स: रक्कम, घेतल्याची तारीख, संपण्याची तारीख

लोकांकडून उधार घेतले असेल तर नांवें, रक्कम, घेतल्याची तारीख

मृत्युपत्र Will

हे आवश्यक आहे. कोणाच्या नावे काय ठेवायचे हे सविस्तर लिहावे व दोन सज्ञान साक्षीदारांच्या स्वाक्षऱ्या घ्याव्यात.

मृत्युपत्रात स्थावर जंगम मालमत्तेबरोबरच इतर गोष्टींचाही विचार करावा - जसे की देहदान/नेत्रदान वगैरे. तसेच खूप पुस्तके असतील तर एखाद्या वाचनालयाला देणे, मौल्यवान वस्तूंचा (स्टॅम्पस/नाणीं इत्यादी) संग्रह असेल तर त्या एखाद्या संग्राहकाला अथवा म्युझियम ला देणगी देण्याबाबत सूचना, कपडे अनाथाश्रमात देणे, इत्यादी.

इच्छापत्र Bucket list

हे ऐच्छिक आहे.

यात आपल्या सर्व इच्छा लिहून ठेवाव्यात, जसे की - कुलदेवतेचे दर्शन, परदेश वारी, तीर्थयात्रा करणे, नाटक पाहणे, काही दूरस्थ नातेवाईकांना/मित्र मैत्रिणीना भेटणे... जे आठवेल तसे लिहावे, व पूर्ण झालेल्या गोष्टी काढून टाकाव्यात.

Legacy work

आपल्या पश्चात ज्या गोष्टी चालू राहाव्यात असे वाटते त्या लिहून ठेवाव्यात.

जसे की वार्षिक कुलाचार, एखाद्या व्यक्तीला/संस्थेला नियमित मदत करत असाल तर त्याबद्दलच्या सूचना, इत्यादी.

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याप्रमाणे सर्व माहिती संकलित करावी. एखाद्या वहीत लिहिणं चांगले, पण कम्प्युटरवर Microsoft Word document मध्ये अथवा मोबाईलमधील Notes app मध्येही लिहू शकता.

पिन क्रमांक, पासवर्ड्स, key combinations इत्यादी माहिती लिहू नये.

सर्व माहिती एकाच बैठकीत लिहायला पाहिजे असे मुळीच नाही. सुरुवात करावी आणि जसजशी माहिती उपलब्ध होईल तशी लिहून ठेवावी.

सदर सूची दोन-तीन महिन्यांतून एकदा (quarterly) नजरेखालून घालावी व काही बदल झाले असतील तर ते करावेत.

ही सूची मुख्यतः आपल्या स्वतःसाठी आहे. पण एक प्रत आपल्या उत्तराधिकारी व्यक्ती (पत्नी/ पती /मुले/ भाऊ/ बहीण) सोबत शेअर करणे चांगले राहील. 

सदर सूची मी माझ्या माहितीप्रमाणे बनवली आहे, ती अजून परिपूर्ण होण्यासाठी आपल्या सूचनांचे स्वागतच आहे.

Google Fonts

Fonts and typography have a fascinating world of their own. A lot of thought and effort goes into creating a new font family. In the era of pen and paper, the handwriting gave an insight into the personality of the writer, perhaps the same is conveyed through their choice of fonts in the digital era.

My initial days in IT started with Verdana - the font looked clean, nicely spaced and easy on the eyes. However, it wasn't quite the right choice for technical documents, which was the real of Arial and Times New Roman. These two fonts were --and I guess still are -- so ubiquitous by their presence, they were considered as workhorse fonts.
Another font that caught attention was Helvetica, it's an elegant font, and it looks best in the titles or headers.
Around 2007, Calibri became the default font in MS-Office products and it became the new de facto standard. Although it still remains the default font, Microsoft later came up with Segoe UI, and it has been one of my favourite fonts for the past 4 years.

Recently, I have been experimenting with IBM Plex font family, and loving it. It is functional as well as aesthetic, and provides a much wider range of styles and a better support for Unicode.

If you love typography, and enjoy trying out different fonts, the Google Fonts site offers more than 800 free typefaces.

https://fonts.google.com/

Ike

Ever since being introduced to the Eisenhower Matrix, I have been using it manually in one form or the other; so it was a delight to find a productivity app specifically based on it.
Aptly named as "Ike" -- the nickname by which Eisenhower was fondly referred to -- the app presents us with four quadrants: FOCUS (tasks that are important and urgent), GOALS (tasks that are important but not urgent), FIT-IN (tasks that are urgent but not important), and BACKBURNER (tasks that are neither important nor urgent). The user interface is sleek and intuitive and provides most of the features needed in a To-Do list, such as reminders, schedulers, and notes.
One cool feature is Location reminder: You can specify reminders about tasks to be performed at a specific location. A boon for forgetful folks like me!
The free version is good enough, but I would suggest the full version which costs Rs. 100/-. It's worth it.

App Idea: Uber for retail goods and skills?

[Disclaimer: Perhaps an app like this already exists. If so, please do let me know!]

Consider this use case scenario:

I am sitting at my desk, working. I am having a terrible headache, and realize that I need to buy medicine for it. 

Just then, my wife informs from the kitchen that we need to order some grocery items. 

My little kid is tugging away at my leg; She wants a drawing book and a set of colour pencils for her drawing class. 

(Image credit: Far Reach Inc.)

So… I open this app and enter my list: A strip of tablets, a bunch of grocery products, and a couple of stationery items. 

The app sends notifications to various shop-owners around my home. Pharmacists see the medicine list, grocery shop owners see the grocery items and stationery shop owners see the demand for drawing book and colour pencils. 

Each of them enters a 'bid' in their app. 

I see the various 'bids' on my app. Depending on the location of the shop, the brand of the product, and, perhaps my past experience with a particular shop, I select the vendors. 

For example: I need the medicines urgently, so I would select the nearest pharmacy. 

I need good quality grocery and it's not very urgent, so I would select a vendor that could be little far away but with whom I have had excellent experience in the past. 

Each of the vendors that I select gets a notification. They pack the required items and send it out for delivery. Optionally, I can also mark some items to be picked up by me. For example, for stationery items, I may select a shop that is located on the way to my kid's drawing class. 

The cost for the items delivered would be auto-debited from my account in the same app, and credited to the respective vendors' account. The app can also provide a "credit" or "EMI" option in the cases where I cannot make the payment right away.

The app would also provide a facility wherein users can give feedback about various shops. This would make the shop owners pay attention to the quality of goods and customer service. 

Furthermore, this need not be limited to goods. How about 'shopping' for skills that are available for hire nearby. For example: I need to build a website, so I can enter it in my app, and the web developers in the area would get notifications which they can bid for.

So basically... This is Uber, but for retail goods. 

What do you think?

The Eisenhower Matrix

Dwight Eisenhower was a remarkable man. He served as the Supreme Commander of military forces and one of the chief architects of Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion) that ultimately defeated Germany and Italy in the Second World War. During his tenure as 34th President of United States of America, he consolidated the USA as an economic and military superpower, started the Interstate Highway System (one of the biggest civil construction projects in history), founded NASA and DARPA, and forewarned about the threat of military-industrial complex. 
And when he found some time from all of this, he created the Eisenhower Matrix. 

Eisenhower Matrix is a simple yet highly effective productivity tool. It consists of four quadrants along two axes (Important vs. Non Important, Urgent vs. NonUrgent) and provides a guideline for what you should for a set of tasks in each quadrant. Important and Urgent tasks must be done by you and on priority, Non-Important but Urgent tasks can be delegated, and so on.

This Matrix can be extrapolated and modified in a variety of ways depending on individual preference. This infographic shows a couple of them.