To help, I tried adhering to a daily schedule, but quickly realized that it was impossible to accurately follow.

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Do Not Disturb can be set to work on a daily schedule, like from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.

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There will be a skimpy 2 megabytes of memory, which isn't much to work with on a Palm device but is enough if all you want to do is keep track of your daily schedule and a sizable address book, among other things.

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Leaving the daily grind of a work schedule can be great, if you have a plan.

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Smartphone photos often leave a location imprint on images which allow stalkers to find locations including home address, workplace, favorite restaurants, and play spots, and even to develop a schedule of your daily activities.

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So, while in command of special operations and the war in Afghanistan, I put a lot of thought into my daily schedule, and constantly tweaked it.

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The best time of the workday to travel is 11 a.m. (a fact well known by retirees who schedule their daily travels at that time).

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The conclave is designed to take outside pressure off cardinals by sequestering them behind a wall of silence where communication with the outside world is essentially cut off, and much of the daily schedule is scripted.

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