What do you use to keep track of your ideas, flow, and design?
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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
I have a really big (4 foot by 3 foot) Whiteboard for that.
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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
VoodooPad[^], OmniGraffle[^] when I need diagrams. On Windows, I guess OneNote and Visio would be the hearest equivalent.
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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
doesn't everyone just scribble on the back side of used printer paper (folded in half) then type it into a text file like me?
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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
That was right gentlemanly of ya....you wouldn't want her anyway, she's got more younguns than teeth and I have a three tooth minimum if that tells ya anything! Mike
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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
Zach Burnett wrote:
What do you use to keep track of your ideas, flow, and design?
Keeping track of things? Right now I am using stir fried mushrooms with red pepper sauce and wine flavored spaghetti pasta and guiness (strong flavored).
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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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
I've started exploring OneNote. I don't know much yet, but it's immediate value is in the availability of notes. You have very quick access to various pages (vertical tabs), in various sections (horizontal tabs), in various notebooks (sidebar). It also integrates with Outlook so you can easily send an email to a notebook that it applies to, or tag a note as an outlook task. It shows promise.
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Pencil, Mechanical (.5mm HB) Paper, Green, Engineering Rule Stored on desk using a vertical filing implementation.
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Gary Kirkham wrote:
Pencil, Mechanical (.5mm HB) Paper, Green, Engineering Rule
Boy, does that bring back the memories. I used reams of that stuff in school. I can't get it easily at work, unless I'm willing to start keeping a lab notebook. That has it's own problems. Our lab notebooks are numbered, and must be submitted to document control when filled. Strangely, I've developed an aversion to pencils in recent years. I've even become obsessive about the pens I use. Only Sanford Uniball Roller Micro's (in blue and green) will do. I buy a box every year or so.
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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
Used sample cards and a pen. We have tons of these 8.5"x5.5" heavy stock cards that were used for printing samples (we make ink jet printers). I've got a boxful that are only printed on one side. If an idea's worthy, it may get copied into my to-do list (a Word document).
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Gary Kirkham wrote:
Pencil, Mechanical (.5mm HB) Paper, Green, Engineering Rule
Boy, does that bring back the memories. I used reams of that stuff in school. I can't get it easily at work, unless I'm willing to start keeping a lab notebook. That has it's own problems. Our lab notebooks are numbered, and must be submitted to document control when filled. Strangely, I've developed an aversion to pencils in recent years. I've even become obsessive about the pens I use. Only Sanford Uniball Roller Micro's (in blue and green) will do. I buy a box every year or so.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Sanford Uniball Roller Micro's
:cool: I get them by the box.
Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot Me blog, You read
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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
OneNote 2007, synced between my laptop and PDA. The fact that I don't have to start up my laptop to jot down an idea or tweak the priority on something is a huge advantage. It's ideal for quickly sketyching out ideas for new features, as well as for keeping my active task list where I can see it quickly (we work on a prioritised backlog basis, kinda Agile I know).
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