Web Tool Choice One

I dug around on the database site provided for our easy research and found one under Organization that I liked called Nirvana - an online one-stop personal organizing site. I took the tour and decided that it would be something that I could see myself using, and when I went to make an account, it turned out that it's not taking new accounts right now. I could put myself on their waiting list and in one to two weeks they'd probably get back to me about an account. I was pretty sure that would make my assignment late, so I kept looking... and found Stixy.com.
It's pretty easy to use. You make an account and you get a virtual corkboard. You can drag sticky notes, pics, to-do notes (like the sticky notes but with time and date, and the site offers reminders on those items), or even documents onto the board. Instead of telling you how to arrange your data like most organization tools, the user gets to place things however s/he wants. The sticky's can be made different sizes or colors depending on the user's organizing whims. There are a couple of things I haven't been able to figure out yet, such as how to make a title for my board (Stixy allows multiple boards) and I can't find a tour or how-to link on the site, but I can work around that.
As of writing this, I have not seen any other students' blogs saying that they've used this site. The example the website uses is of planning a bike trip. I see myself as using this personally - I chose it because I organize well with lists and sticky notes, and since this is on the web, I can sign in from wherever and add something to my board (which is great since I can't remember to bring a calendar anywhere nor update it with my plans when I get back to it). The board that I created so far is a general task list - I have the homework assignments written on it as well as reminders to change the laundry, complete my census form, etc. I look forward to creating a board to organize the personal shower I'm throwing for my sister next month - I can track recipes, costs, invitations, RSVP's, or whatever on there. It also has a collaboration element to it in that I can invite other people to sign in to the account (customizable by each board, so someone on my shower board isn't necessarily given access to my son's birthday party board, for example). My sister could jump on there and add something if she wanted, which is pretty neat, since we don't have very many chances to talk in person and most of our communication is digital.
I don't see myself using this professionally since we've got Outlook at work with similar functions, and I tend to use real sticky notes posted along the sides of my computer to remember random things throughout the day.
One other thing I learned: it's hard to try out online collaboration tools when I am not collaborating with anyone on something; thus, the organization tool was chosen after wasting a lot of time looking at the collaboration tools.