Many thanks for the responses. Interesting to hear your thoughts and really helpful for clarifying my own thinking.
For my purposes, I've come to the conclusion that I will use both approaches. At least now I've thought about it I can say it's a conscious decision. If I'm keeping a chronological sequence of notes I realise I need to ask myself why I'm doing it and that will guide me about which approach to take for a particular task. Some examples: - Tracking status of a finite process - Reverse Recording an exchange for future use with third party (complaint, justifying decisions etc) - Chronological For future review for performance or improvement - Chronological Problem solving - Reverse Research and information gathering - Reverse Delegated tasks - Reverse When having a quick Google about the topic I found this <http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/91312/should-an-order-tracker-timeline-be-in-chronological-or-reverse-chronological-or> thread interesting. Loved the Kierkegaard quote - 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Sums the dilemma up nicely. One idea touched upon was to list Chronologically but also have the very latest entry at the top. I might experiment with that if I can automate it via AutoHotKey. I'm sure there is no "right" answer to this one. The Sort Ascending/Descending toggle button on so much software is probably there for a good reason! Thanks again. On Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:24:52 UTC+1, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > I'm with Wallace on this one. I truly respect and honor consistency but > it's not for me in this case. > > My default preference is newest on top. In any sort of problem solving > or project managing activity my first objective is usually to establish > where we are now and where we need to be. So the first thing I want to > read is the latest "possible solution" or "test failed, trying something > different" post. So I usually want to read email conversations and > project logs from the most recent. Also, when adding a note top a long > narrative especially on a phone where there is no "end" button, it's > easier to add a new note at the top, where the cursor is when the edit > screen opens. > > But sometimes the question is not where we are or where we need to be. > It's however did we get where we are. For these you want to read > earliest to latest. I agree with other posters that it is really > unsatisfying to read a conversation from the bottom up. So when I am > building a log that seems likely to be read as a narrative, it's > add-at-bottom. > > Honestly, anything being recorded as it happens is probably add-at-top > while a narrative reconstructed afterwards, edited for readability, will > be add at bottom. > > -Dwight > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/c981b47c-13ba-47c9-9bd1-d071db35aab7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
