What’s on Your Homepage? Does it Lead you to Success?

What’s on Your Homepage?

I have to confess, up until about a month ago, I didn’t really “get” the purpose of a homepage. Well, really I guess there can be many uses for a homepage depending on what your purpose is. Many people just leave theirs set to the default of a search engine such a Google, or yahoo search. I actually had mine set to Myspace.

For the last month or so, I have been using the Google homepage, but I am using iGoogle. OMGosh, I LOVE it. I think that I would use it now, even if I wasn’t trying to organize my life, and work online again. There are so many cool things about it.

iGoogle Homepage

This is my iGoogle homepage

I have all the things that I need, right here.

Google Reader – I have a list of many blogs that I read. When I find a good article, I can share it with my friends on my contact list.
Gmail – This is now my default email program. Prior to this, I was just using the local one that I got with my ISP, and had it set up on Outlook Express.
Google Docs – Another of my new favorites. I write all of my articles in here prior to uploading them to my blogs. If I want to get someones opinion on the article, I just have to share it with them, they can tell me their thoughts and send it back!
ToDo List – I mostly use the todo list now instead of going with the tradition scrap pieces of paper that get lost.
Twitter Gadget – To keep me up to date with all of the tweeting.
Local Weather – just helpful.
Google Calendar – I have expressed my love for this gadget in previous posts. This will be the first year I don’t have to get a desktop daytimer. I find the Google Calendar more to my liking.

Those are the things I have on top, above the fold. Like I said – everything I need, right there. I also have things like YouTube, Google Blog Search, and Wikipedia. I don’t use these all the time, but they are very handy to have. They have thousands of gadgets that you can choose to add to your homepage, depending on what you want to use it for (they even have a hangman gadget!)

My homepage is now setting me up for success. When I start in the morning, I know what I have to do that day. My daily agenda is mailed to my Gmail account at 5:19 AM (yup I’m an early riser), I can check to see if there is anything huge that needs to be dealt with through my mail and my reader… then I can grab a coffee (no Google doesn’t have a gadget for that yet) and can get busy doing it.

Two questions:

Is your homepage set up to lead you to success?
If you are using iGoogle, what is your favorite gadget?

Hope that helps,