It doesn't matter what you are writing, studying, researching and planning, it is so very important to keep a note of where you have been, what you have found and of course where you stuck the information after you had found it. Now with Corral this has become easy - we can find it, and save it all to one place. But call me cautious if you like, and you may be just like me, I do like to ensure that I have a backup of the most important stuff - stored elsewhere.

With major disasters, the organisations who get back up and running quickly are the ones who had their mission critical information stored in more than one location. They simply go to their second seat of operation and load up their data from the second local and away they go. As I said, Corral makes it so easy to ensure the information is safe, we can forget the other things we are working on. Imagine working on your thesis and your computer hard drive failed....and there is no backup. Worse still the notes are half scribbled and missing crucial information. How easy would it be for you to recreate the document? How long would it take?

Now we may never be unfortunate enough to lose a hard drive, but what would you do if you did? How fast would you be able to get back up and running? So, speaking from the voice of experience. Save it, back it up, don't assume it can't happen to you. This is just another form of insurance. I mean, the idea of insurance is to have it and never have to use it. So it is with a backup, it's there if you do need to make a claim.