Yup,
There is a bunch of white stuff on the ground here in Calgary. Can't have a May Long without it! So, it's time to finish off the indoor projects and whatnot so when the real spring finally shows up, we can enjoy it.
Working with tablet and trying to change the way that I work has proven to be an interesting journey. Change is always hard as one can find so many ways of defeating it or not embracing it totally. I have dropped the use of the paper notebook entirely. I find that storing what I do, who I do it for and how long it takes can be captured in the TiddlyWiki that I have set up. I have used the tablet to go to meetings and take notes in OneNote. I found a nice add-on that shows the date that the meetings notes were taken. That's pretty neat as I can now flip through a calendar to see when meetings where to put it into the right context. This weekend I decided to convert all of my written notes to text. I found that it can be done but an extra screen is needed so hopping back and forth on a single, crowded screen need not happen. I also found that if I am going to do this, I would have to do it every night or at least once a week, so I have the meeting information fresh in my mind. A lot of it seems to be re-work, if I capture the information correctly on my wiki. But, to many notes can never be a bad thing.
Speaking of too many or in this case, not enough notes was the problem up at our place in Sylvan. We are in a condo park there and for the last couple of years, we have had new grounds managers. The one that we had last year did a very bad job of winterizing and the new people (outside company rather than a park resident) are having a very difficult time understanding how things are set up. At the AGM yesterday, that got me thinking that helping them create an operating manual would be a good thing for them, me and the park. So I volunteered to help out. Now to find some s/w like an open source CAD program or xl based data capture system? I really don't know what but something has to be better than nothing. This should prove interesting as data capture like this is exactly what I am faced with each day at work.
