On Thursday 15 January 2009, Orion Vianna wrote: > Here is another one :o) > What are people on MHVLUG using to take notes at meetings? > Pen and paper does not work as well for me since I don't > write as fast.
I've been taking notes on paper. I also don't write as well as I can type, but the secret to writing paper notes is to not write everything down, but rather to only scribble a few important words. Usually what I come away with from a meeting is a short list of either package or program names, web URLs, and a couple of doodles. This way I'm also able to focus most of my time on the speaker and what's being said rather than writing. Being able to focus and be selective about what to write is typically the recommended way to write paper notes... including the doodles, by the way. :-P > I have been collecting notes to a text document and then > making actions from them in *Thinking Rock. > But there are other types of data in the notes which are > interesting to make searchable and with some type of association > between them. I'm looking for something cross platform, this is not > just for me so if anyone knows anything running on windows land > only thats fine too... [Orion ducks]... > > *Thinking Rock is an organizer based on the Getting Things Done > book approach Even though I have a laptop I've learned I prefer not bringing it to the meeting unless I have a specific purpose for it, such as using it for presenting. Most of the time I find it's just a distraction. I've tried taking short notes in a text editor, but end up preferring paper. And it's not easy to doodle in a text editor. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails Feb 4 - TBD
