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What do you use to keep track of your ideas, flow, and design?

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    Zach Burnett
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    Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

    Zach

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      Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

      Zach

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      PIEBALDconsult
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      Little scraps of paper, pencil.

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        Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

        Zach

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        Chris Losinger
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        i use the big throbbing squishy thing in my head

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          Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

          Zach

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          Hans Dietrich
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          Spiral notebook, or Action Outline for text notes.

          Best wishes, Hans


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            Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

            Zach

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            Dewm Solo
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            Usually I draw everything on a white board and take the pictures with my blackberry. Then I send them to my working folder and attach the files to the project in subversion. Since all that is like the early analysis and graphs, I usually end up using those pictures to rewrite all the graphs and improve the design with Visio or StarUML. The design shown on these is usually the one that I will use to create/update the project at hand.

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              Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

              Zach

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              Marc Clifton
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              Visio, Google notes, FrontPage (I have several incomplete articles), to do lists (electronic), and notes on paper in front of my desk. And I still can't get my bills paid on time! Marc

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                Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                Zach

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                Mike Hankey
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                For years I've used a spiral notebook but I am developing an app to keep track of notes, snippets, design sketches and the like. Like you I would write stuff down so I wouldn't forget it but then I would forget where I wrote it. I've lost a lot of phone numbers so hopefully this app will help. By the way theres a cute little blond named Cindy...If she asks for me get her number and email it to me..I'd be much abliged! Mike Young married couple..Blond wife..Husband comes home one day and his wife is staring at a carton of orange juice. Husbands asks...what are ya doing. Wife replies..duh, concentrate!

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                  Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                  Zach

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                  Matthew Faithfull
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                  An A4 notebook and TodoList[^] of course :-D

                  Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.

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                  • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                    For years I've used a spiral notebook but I am developing an app to keep track of notes, snippets, design sketches and the like. Like you I would write stuff down so I wouldn't forget it but then I would forget where I wrote it. I've lost a lot of phone numbers so hopefully this app will help. By the way theres a cute little blond named Cindy...If she asks for me get her number and email it to me..I'd be much abliged! Mike Young married couple..Blond wife..Husband comes home one day and his wife is staring at a carton of orange juice. Husbands asks...what are ya doing. Wife replies..duh, concentrate!

                    Caution - Be sure to put brain in gear before putting mouth in motion

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                    Zach Burnett
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                    You know, I may be tempted to keep her number and email for myself :-D Well you asked very nicely and said you would be abliged so I will do the gentlemanly thing and hand it over without a second thought

                    Zach

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                    • Z Zach Burnett

                      Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                      Zach

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                        Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                        Zach

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                        Essential PIM Pro www.essentialpim.com[^] They also have a scaled down free version. This was developed to be kept on a flash drive. (Which I keep on me, always) Password Protection Rich Text Notes To Do List Schedule Attachments Contacts

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          Visio, Google notes, FrontPage (I have several incomplete articles), to do lists (electronic), and notes on paper in front of my desk. And I still can't get my bills paid on time! Marc

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                          Xiangyang Liu
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                          Marc Clifton wrote:

                          And I still can't get my bills paid on time!

                          The bank will love you for this because they can charge more and more fees. I heard they call people who are paying bills on time "dead beats". :)

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                            Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                            Zach

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                            I've been using Microsoft's OneNote lately, and I actually like it. :)

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                              Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                              Zach

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                              l a u r e n
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                              keep track of things??!!?? where's the fun in that? :rolleyes:

                              "there is no spoon" {me}

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                                Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                                Zach

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                                Gary Kirkham
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                                Pencil, Mechanical (.5mm HB) Paper, Green, Engineering Rule Stored on desk using a vertical filing implementation.

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                                  Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                                  Zach

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                                  Roger Wright
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                                  Cocktail napkins are great idea holders, but you have to remember to remove them from your pants pockets before doing laundry.

                                  "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                                    Cocktail napkins are great idea holders, but you have to remember to remove them from your pants pockets before doing laundry.

                                    "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                                    Zach Burnett
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                                    Well you know. You may lose your ideas that are on the napkins but if you wash enough of them you can pull out all the bits and make a brand new even bigger sheet of paper so you can put more ideas on (once it dries of course)

                                    Zach

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                                      Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                                      Zach

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                                      Chris Meech
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                                      Keep track of things? :wtf: That would take all the fun out of it. :)

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                                        Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                                        Zach

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                                        keyboard warrior
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                                        ms paint. we dont have the budget for fancy white boards. as a matter of fact, my mouse laser went out as well and ill just have to use TAB until the new fiscal year :wtf:

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                                          Do you use a white board, pencil and paper, software, or try and keep up with it mentally? Me personally, since I have to share my p.c. with another employee on some days I use the time tested pencil and paper technique (though things get moved around and I end up losing my legal pad) and I also try to keep a back up in my head just in case the paper with everything ends up in a different location and I am unable to find it for a week.

                                          Zach

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                                          Psycho Coder Extreme
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                                          I have a really big (4 foot by 3 foot) Whiteboard for that.

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