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Phone Smart
Modern smartphones like to think about how we
make it easy to save phone numbers and store all kinds of important data. My life would be a password nightmare without my smartphone. But my co-worker is the total opposite. He refuses to store any information on his phone. You read that right, he has absolutely no numbers saved on his cell phone. He says he does this on purpose to keep his mind fresh, reasoning that if he stores a phone number on his cell, his mind will allow him to forget it. But hey, it’s 2022 already! The wonders of modern technology put a world of unimaginable possibilities at our fingertips, and I think we should make use of those incredible tools.
Many of us marvel at gadgets like smartphones, pocket computers and all the things we never had when we were younger. We
could have used those same miraculous tools earlier in our lives — so why not use the technology that is available to you right now?
Making efficient use of your smartphone is a brilliant idea, but it does take practical planning. Storing names and numbers properly should be one of the easiest things to do, but sometimes it is not. You may receive an important call from someone, and capture their number knowing only their first name. Or, you quickly input a temporary “code name” thinking you will remember it later. More often than not, when it comes time to find that number, you have no idea what first name or code name you saved it under. To add to the frustration, you find four “Johns” in your address book and they all have different numbers. Yikes!
I am guilty of this. We have a school-aged child and share group texts with our son’s friends’ families. On occasion I don’t know the first names of all the parents because our son, like many children, refers to older adults as “auntie” and “uncle,” revealing only their last names. Sometimes, my husband and I feel embarrassed about asking other parents their first names, so we don’t label their numbers in the most accurate way.
Christmas card list, relevant business cards and other contact sheets you may have to either input them or update and clean up your contacts.
quick and easy access to your information. And, when you back up your phone to another external storage device, you are also backing up all the information for all your contacts. No more looking for numbers or addresses — simply access them all on your smartphone.
of the “Get Your House in Order” campaign with a new section of the guidebook available from the HIFICU. com website during each quarterly phase.
October 19, 2022
MIDWEEK 7
PAULETTE ITO
SVP Marketing
Hawaiian Financial Federal Credit Union
Keep Your Cell
Getting your house in order also applies to the information stored on your smartphone. Take the time to keep the contents clean and organized. Get started by setting aside two hours to organize your smartphone by gathering your address book,
Just like making the decision to keep or toss important paper files, deleting a name and number from your smartphone isn’t always easy. This is when you need to ask yourself some hard questions. Do I know who this number belongs to? Do I need this number? When you come across current, relevant contacts, make sure the information is up to date and accurate. And don’t forget to add the 808 area code in front of all Hawai‘i numbers, since it is now required when calling locally.
Helping all Hawai‘i’s ‘ohana achieve their highest quality of life possible is the main goal of the “Get Your House in Order” campaign, while reminding everyone of the importance of sound life- planning decisions.
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Updating all your smartphone records and keeping them current enables
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