Anders Nordås wrote a blog post where he talks a little about how he uses his beautiful moleskin notebook. I will pick up his challenge and write about my favorite tool, Post It notes.
As many who know me are aware, I always have a pad of Post-It notes and a pen in my left pants pocket. I use the sticky notes for todo-lists, note taking in meetings, planning talks and doing brain dumps. After the jump, I post a few examples of Post-It notes from my pocket.
I accumulate tasks on a TODO list. Sometimes the tasks are organized by topics, other times not.
As I complete tasks, I scratch them out (not done), or check them off (done).
When the TODO list looks sufficiently messy, I just rewrite it and throw the old one away.
Who needs Visio?!
After a meeting, I refine my notes from the meeting until I have the distilled conclusion on a single note.
I often draft documents or emails while on the bus. I usually go through about ten Post-Its (to be thrown away) before I have my final outline. Creating this outline took about 5 minutes.
When there’s a lot on my mind, it can be hard to sleep. If I just get it all down on a piece of paper, I can sleep like a baby.
When people ask me for my contact information, I have stopped digging around for a business card. Feel free to drop me a mail!
Tag you’re it! How do you make notes?
Just to clarify how babies sleep: The first six months, they rarely sleep more than 3 hours in a single stretch. Later, if you're lucky, they sleep through the night, but they don't exactly just lie there sleeping all quietly like most adults. They go to bed head one way, and wake up inside the douvet cover, head the other way and their pyjamas torn to pieces at 5.30 a.m.
Aside from that: I like your notepad :)
Just to clarify how babies sleep: The first six months, they rarely sleep more than 3 hours in a single stretch. Later, if you’re lucky, they sleep through the night, but they don’t exactly just lie there sleeping all quietly like most adults. They go to bed head one way, and wake up inside the douvet cover, head the other way and their pyjamas torn to pieces at 5.30 a.m.
Aside from that: I like your notepad :)