Comments on: Taking Note http://patrickrhone.com/2005/04/27/taking-note/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Berko http://patrickrhone.com/2005/04/27/taking-note/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Berko Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:04:25 +0000 http://dev.patrickrhone.com/2005/04/27/taking-note/#comment-279 <p>re: Future Needs: Perhaps you could use Moleskine hyperlinks to link to the day that you complete an item. If you have more than one day on a page, you could use a, b, c, etc. to differentiate. So, if you have</p> <h2>4-26-06</h2> <p>-Get dog food and treats for Roy</p> <p>on page 35 (you do number your pages, right??) then when you complete the task a week later (5-3-06, second date on page 42) you make the 4-26 task look like this</p> <h2>4-26-06</h2> <p>-Get dog food and treats for Roy ->42b</p> <p>If you write the task down when you complete it on 5-3, then you might also hyperlink back to when you first wrote it down. If you do this though, it seems like you are doing two separate things: tracking NAs and keeping a journal of accomplished NAs. I'm not sure if it would be much use to you, but you could also consider keeping a separate tracking of the two. So, you could keep a journal (I use a small ruled Moleskine) of what you get accomplished in a given day (much like GOD from board.43folders does) and hyperlink those tasks to the capture date in your other book.</p> <p>Overall, it seems like you are doing at least two (but I say three) things. You are capturing information throughout the day. You are tracking NAs. And you are tracking completion dates for NAs. I could also add processing into this. It strikes me that perhaps you are trying to capture and then act, without processing in the middle. So, your capture bucket is becoming your NA list, and that can get really messy. If you use your notebook <em>only</em> as a capture device, you wouldn't really need to track the completion date if you are keeping on top of your weekly reviews; it should all be processed by at least then, if not sooner. So capture->process->track->act. I don't think these can all be done in the same book (without multiple sections of course). HTH.</p> re: Future Needs: Perhaps you could use Moleskine hyperlinks to link to the day that you complete an item. If you have more than one day on a page, you could use a, b, c, etc. to differentiate. So, if you have

4-26-06

-Get dog food and treats for Roy

on page 35 (you do number your pages, right??) then when you complete the task a week later (5-3-06, second date on page 42) you make the 4-26 task look like this

4-26-06

-Get dog food and treats for Roy ->42b

If you write the task down when you complete it on 5-3, then you might also hyperlink back to when you first wrote it down. If you do this though, it seems like you are doing two separate things: tracking NAs and keeping a journal of accomplished NAs. I’m not sure if it would be much use to you, but you could also consider keeping a separate tracking of the two. So, you could keep a journal (I use a small ruled Moleskine) of what you get accomplished in a given day (much like GOD from board.43folders does) and hyperlink those tasks to the capture date in your other book.

Overall, it seems like you are doing at least two (but I say three) things. You are capturing information throughout the day. You are tracking NAs. And you are tracking completion dates for NAs. I could also add processing into this. It strikes me that perhaps you are trying to capture and then act, without processing in the middle. So, your capture bucket is becoming your NA list, and that can get really messy. If you use your notebook only as a capture device, you wouldn’t really need to track the completion date if you are keeping on top of your weekly reviews; it should all be processed by at least then, if not sooner. So capture->process->track->act. I don’t think these can all be done in the same book (without multiple sections of course). HTH.

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