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That sounds pretty decent for you, but it sounds a little terrible for the guy who has to come in a decade later and figure out what you were doing. I'm a much
by onychomys 9y ago
That sounds pretty decent for you, but it sounds a little terrible for the guy who has to come in a decade later and figure out what you were doing. I'm a much bigger fan of having one notebook for each thing, just so everything is all in the same place.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoI tried multiple notebooks first, but I find I am not careful enough to avoid writing in the 'wrong' notebook. Not killer of course, just frustrating. And since most of what I've done is software I had an unpleasant experience at Intel of going into a meeting about a project which digressed into a meeting about another project and then had the 'wrong' notebook with me for data and details. Do you do anything in particular to keep your notebooks separate?
- noir_lord 9y agoI use 5mm A4 squared paper in cheap A4 card folders (pad goes in front of pages torn out which are numbered), I use different colored folders and I have a rule that pad goes in a folder before I get a different pad out, I think in 3 years I've written in the wrong pad one or twice. The advantage of this approach is that I can jot random crap in a pad and then if it's really not relevant just rip it out and bin it, I only number the top page of the pad that way if I do need to bin it I can just write the same number on the next page. Having all the pages (neatly) torn out also means I can shove them through the scanner tray on the copiers at work which is nice and of course spread them around my desk, put third party pages in (and number them) etc. I usually keep the folders for a few months then if I haven't referred to them (I write the last date I did on the back of the folder) I just scan them into decent quality TIFF's and recycle them.