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Onenote for detailed logs on a specific issue (bug/feature/research) TFS for tracking effort in a sprint. And I no longer take notes -- our sprint planner tak

Onenote for detailed logs on a specific issue (bug/feature/research) TFS for tracking effort in a sprint. And I no longer take notes -- our sprint planner takes notes in individual user stories. Todoist for task management outside of TFS (and also for personal tasks)

Programmatic 9y ago
+1 to OneNote. The Notebook/Section/Page paradigm is super intuitive and convenient. You can create/copy hyperlinks to different notebooks/sections/pages/paragraphs, so it's easy to make a master notebook with shortcuts for navigation. (un)fortunately I'm standardized on OneNote 2007, vs. the later versions, but keyboard shortcuts for it in 2007 on Win7 are fantastic. Win+Shift+N to bring up OneNote with the last page open, Win+N for a new unfiled note, and various "tags" and searches. Many Win key shortcuts have changed in Win 10 and later versions of OneNote. I use checkbox tags for Ctrl-1 (you can assign Ctrl-# to particular tags), so you can easily make a checklist by just typing an item and then hitting Ctrl-1 to make a "todo". You can mark it as done by hitting Ctrl-1 again on the same line. You can also insert timestamps with Alt-Shift-F so you can note when you completed something or similar. Win+S brings up a screen snipping tool for quick documentation on a topic as you go.
taude 9y ago
I'm a big fan of OneNote. I use it on my Mac, iPhone, Windows machine, and Android phone to keep a bunch of stuff in sync. I have one section that contains a Note for each week. I archive the notes after awhile. Each week I start a new Note for that week, and update it daily. At the top, I keep my task list of things to do. When I go to copy it to the next week's note, I rank what's important and not. I have a section called "projects" where I create a note for each Major project I'm working on. Here's where I create a Dashboard for what's going on with that project. I have a section called "company" where I create notes related to my big companies process/procedures. I have a section called "releases" where I have all the release notes stored of all the features that have gone into the project: this is so I can find almost anything instantly with the search functionality. I also have a note called Current Release, that I use as a scratch pad for the current things going on. In general, any important email that I need to save from Corp, I transpose into my OneNote notebook. I also link a lot of my TODOs that I need to have deadlines on into Tasks in Outlook (I don't do this on my Mac.) Anyway, I"ve used a lot of tools, like Org-mode, Evernote, Reophnotes, nValt, etc....and have been happy with the tool called One Note. Etc....

Programmatic 9y ago

+1 to OneNote. The Notebook/Section/Page paradigm is super intuitive and convenient. You can create/copy hyperlinks to different notebooks/sections/pages/paragraphs, so it's easy to make a master notebook with shortcuts for navigation. (un)fortunately I'm standardized on OneNote 2007, vs. the later versions, but keyboard shortcuts for it in 2007 on Win7 are fantastic. Win+Shift+N to bring up OneNote with the last page open, Win+N for a new unfiled note, and various "tags" and searches. Many Win key shortcuts have changed in Win 10 and later versions of OneNote. I use checkbox tags for Ctrl-1 (you can assign Ctrl-# to particular tags), so you can easily make a checklist by just typing an item and then hitting Ctrl-1 to make a "todo". You can mark it as done by hitting Ctrl-1 again on the same line. You can also insert timestamps with Alt-Shift-F so you can note when you completed something or similar. Win+S brings up a screen snipping tool for quick documentation on a topic as you go.

taude 9y ago

I'm a big fan of OneNote. I use it on my Mac, iPhone, Windows machine, and Android phone to keep a bunch of stuff in sync. I have one section that contains a Note for each week. I archive the notes after awhile. Each week I start a new Note for that week, and update it daily. At the top, I keep my task list of things to do. When I go to copy it to the next week's note, I rank what's important and not. I have a section called "projects" where I create a note for each Major project I'm working on. Here's where I create a Dashboard for what's going on with that project. I have a section called "company" where I create notes related to my big companies process/procedures. I have a section called "releases" where I have all the release notes stored of all the features that have gone into the project: this is so I can find almost anything instantly with the search functionality. I also have a note called Current Release, that I use as a scratch pad for the current things going on. In general, any important email that I need to save from Corp, I transpose into my OneNote notebook. I also link a lot of my TODOs that I need to have deadlines on into Tasks in Outlook (I don't do this on my Mac.) Anyway, I"ve used a lot of tools, like Org-mode, Evernote, Reophnotes, nValt, etc....and have been happy with the tool called One Note. Etc....