Electronic engineering notebook?
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
Two main spreadsheets, each with 7 and 10 workbooks in them; an inbox, a text file and an emergency must-do printed page in front of me.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
I think Microsoft OneNote is the cats meow for that kind of stuff. You can do *so* much with that product it's crazy.
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I think Microsoft OneNote is the cats meow for that kind of stuff. You can do *so* much with that product it's crazy.
code-frog wrote:
I think Microsoft OneNote is the cats meow for that kind of stuff. You can do *so* much with that product it's crazy.
I used OneNote at my previous company and found it very usefull, being able to hit Windows + N to create a quick note was very handy. At my current company I no longer have the online MSDN available to I can't just download and install it; I have to put in a request to IT to get a license for it and then maybe I would be allowed to use it :-(
Never argue with an imbecile; they bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience.
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
Try IDailyDiary from Splinterware Software Solutions, the free version is useable, good for keeping web page links, use mutiple diary for different projects. I also use ToDoList from Abstract Spoon Software, it's good for outlining a task. Free Sticky Notes is also usefull for jotting things down before cut/paste to something more permanent http://www.splinterware.com http://abstractspoon.com http://www.freestickynotes.com
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I think Microsoft OneNote is the cats meow for that kind of stuff. You can do *so* much with that product it's crazy.
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I think Microsoft OneNote is the cats meow for that kind of stuff. You can do *so* much with that product it's crazy.
I quite agree. The 2003 version was good but 2007 is so much better!
Phil
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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I quite agree. The 2003 version was good but 2007 is so much better!
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
I'll agree. OneNote 2003 was great. OneNote 2007 is a really nice improvement. Add a TabletPC into the mix and it really rocks. My team has a notebook that is out on a fileshare so that the entire team can use it. We use OneNote for project information, living operations manual, code tips and team todo's.
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
I use TiddlyWiki. It's a personal wiki that does not require a web-server to be running. It is build entirely in HTML and JavaScript and can be set to auto-save every time you make a change. I keep it up on my desktop all the time. Another tool that I use in Windows (Linux has this built in) is VirtuaWin. This allows multiple desktops with hotkeys to switch between. Having my TiddlyWiki open on one desktop where it's only a hot-key away is very convenient.
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
Suffer the same problem, I use 3M free postIt notes, Tiddly Wiki and QuickNote for Firefox. However because I move around quite a lot I carry a 120G USB drive (gave up on laptops - too big, too heavy and thievable). My main tool is Essential PIM Free Edition which comes in desktop & portable versions - I keep its database on the portable drive. I thought managing madness was the purpose of life.
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
Another vote for OneNote. I use it for everything from links, code notes thru to uni research. It also has a cool pasword protected section where I keep the bazillion usernames and passwords I have collected from living on the net for years. Nige :) [Insert pithy saying here]
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Two main spreadsheets, each with 7 and 10 workbooks in them; an inbox, a text file and an emergency must-do printed page in front of me.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I have to echo the OneNote©® usage, it is just so handy that I even keep a journal of my daily activities so I can track back say last year and tell you what I was working on, on any given day.
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Has anyone tried Ecco? It is now off the market (why?), but has been released for downloading. We are also trying to use Sharepoint teamsites. I see OneNote folks - but how do I sync that to my Palm E? I used to be a bear...
I've been using Ecco Pro since it's original release and love it despite it's complexity. One of the MS patches about a year ago makes it eat CPU cycles when I edit a phonebook entry, but I still use it 'cause I've never found anything else like it ... OK, OK, stop yellin' at me - I'll give OneNote a try.
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At the moment, I have a severe problem of disciplining myself to use one scheme to record development notes. I have sticky notes (yellow electronic notes), todo list (from cp), text files, a Wiki tool, and hand written. Do any of you out there have a secret for managing the madness? I prefer electronic, as it allows me to search.... StickyNotes is great as it quickly allows me to jot something down, but still, things are clearly not to my liking... how do you deal with it as a developer? Chris, you must surely have several chapters of todo lists.....;) chg
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
Ecco? Ecco? gosh, I just went back in time... hadn't heard that product in 10 years. The real issue is that (1) it must be convenient - stickynotes is convenient, but the damn little yellow things can get out of hand in a hurry :) You know what I mean. ToDo List is a beautiful app but I need a simpler interface - I need both todo lists and the ability to ramble... you know what I'm talking about. Today was the last push to get code to a field test release. Some problems popped up yesterday that should have been caught long ago... this morning, I woke up and the ideas and thoughts were just flowing out of my fingers... weird. Anyway, I've been using the iDiary suggestion for the last few days (and wouldn't you know it, I need the pro version for a feature), and I'm happy so far. But, I need to go try that ms product too. Thanks for the pointers.....
Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams