How to keep up with your thoughts or ideas.
I scribble notes down to help me remember what I need to do for the day.
I write down grocery items so I don't forget anything when I go shopping.
I write down phone numbers down on a piece of an old envelope and then I lose it. LOL Guess thats never happened you, huh.
SHH. I am a closet note taker. And if you happen to find any of my missing notes, please just return to owner, or even better, please complete my to-do list.
Seriously through, I was writing some one's blog this morning and found this link,http://youtu.be/IAb31rIeGZo , to a youtube video. It shows you how to fold and cut a page of typing paper into a neat little notebook. For whatever you need to write down throughout the day.
The website, PocketMod even has these little pre-designed pages you can download for free.
Anyway, I am a note taking addict and just wanted to share this neat little notebook you can make that will eliminate ending your day with 20 pieces of scare paper in your pocket.
All links in this article are free links. No money was earned in the making of this article. LOL
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I personally prefer using online tools like Wunderlist and Evernote. I never lose them and they are available anywhere... :) You should check them out, they are all free tools too! :)
What about when you're not at your computer? For instance I ride a bike for exercise.
Ah, forget what I just said.
Truthfully, my Blogging Notes are scribbled on a bar napkin. In the bar. With a drink in my hand. And I wonder why I keep losing those notes.
Seriously, I edit my notes later at home.
Wunderlist, http://www.wunderlist.com it lets you take notes on your phone, tablet, laptop, desktop and keeps them all in sync. You can use it whilst your cycling if your phone has voice activation and dictation, ie. an iPhone. :) Rich.
well then, I guess that 2 positive comments for http://www.wunderlist.com
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Lol, I thought you were talking about me...I do the same thing although I do have a regular size notebook and a couple of pocket size ones full of my scribblings! Those and a bunch of scraps of papers and old envelopes that I wrote notes on, which sometimes come up missing because someone (me) threw them away not realizing I had notes written on the other side.
Another thing I find is that I often have a hard time reading my writing later...I sometimes write notes too fast (or when I'm just so plain exhausted) and then end up doing chicken scratching. Then it take a lot of time trying to decipher my own writing. Pretty bad when I am looking at my notes later and thinking "Wow, this makes no sense at all!" and have to go back and redo it all over.
Thanks for sharing the video...pretty cool!
I'm glad I'm not the only one to lose their lists and can't read what I wrote. Drives my husband crazy.
lol. too funny, I go through the same thing. I have note saved and stored all over the place. Just never found a system to keep everything organized, yet!
As for reading my notes. My handwriting was terrible too. Until I started making a conscious effort to improve. Now I can read it. lol.
I think the main point here is organizational skills are critical to any success. If your aren't organized you can't work efficiently. I never believed that but now i do.
Hello, I'm afraid that I'm the complete opposite and it doesn't make it any easier. I have a list book which I write in every evening for the following day. I use my highlighter pen to cross of items that I've done. If I do something that isn't on my list, I write it on and then highlight it out - mad eh? If I don't complete my list by the end of the day, for whatever reason, I feel that I have failed. OMG do I have a lot of failed days! I enjoyed the post. Thank you. Jackie
Awesome skills. Jackie Keeping up with the details is important especially in online business where most of us have a lot of irons in the fire. Good idea about the high lighter, I use a pen but if I used a high lighter I could still see what I had marked off.
As I get older I find I have to write down most things. I tell people, it's not that I'm forgetful - there are so many important things in my head, there is no room for anything else. Yeah, nobody else buys that one either.
I lose pieces of paper, guaranteed, including the little pocket sized notebooks (they're the worst for getting lost), so I graduated to a full sized notebook. It fell out of the truck - gone forever.
Now I type notes in Word on my laptop, or I just found a little free word processor for my Kindle called Ink Pad that works pretty well.
I also scan all of my receipts in to my laptop. The key here is making sure to have a current backup for the day the laptop fails. And it will fail.
Works for me.
Kali
After I read this, looking around trying to think of my comment I had to laugh at the site of my work are, notes scribbled everywhere. To hear you talk sounds just like me. How many times do you get the grocery store and the dutiful list is still sitting where you left it, at home ERRR. lol Like Rich is saying the iphone has a notes app that is great if you remember to use it. LOL I am going to check the other program he is talking about.
And I also have like Daniel says a plethora of phone numbers with no names.
How about the heart sinking feeling you just threw away a important note that was on a envelope that you didn't need yeah the envelope wan't important but the serial number well....LOL
Well I feel ya! haha off I go to checkout wunderlist
hi my name is Kymee and I am a listaholic.
Oh, man. It makes me so mad at myself when I realize I threw a receipt away that I needed keep for my records. I find the voice recorder on my dinty little phone works pretty good.
I use the little pocket-sized composition notebooks. I have used these for years. You can usually get one for fifty cents... or three for a dollar in the store. Some of my best ideas, including the writing of a book started in one of these little books.
In spite of these, I'm another one notorious for writing things on the envelopes of opened mail and then accidentally disposing of them in my haste to keep the clutter in check. I am also notorious for writing down phone numbers and not writing the names of who they belong to. Weeks or months later, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out whose numbers these are.
I will look into PocketMod. :)
Thanks for all this great info, I need more things to keep track of, ROF Seriously though, good idea.
If you ever decide you'd like a more eco-friendly digital take on bits-of-paper, I can highly recommend Wunderlist as a free alternative http://www.wunderlist.com It's cross-platform and there are apps for both iOS and Android devices which means your lists are kept in sync across the board automatically. Rich. x
I to like eco-friendly products, but I worry about techy stuff going down at the worst possible times. But as soon as I get me one of those new fangle devices known as the smartphone, I will probably load it up with all the cool tools I can. Any body got an old smartphone they want to sell I'm right here. LOL
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Very cool little gadget! Thanks for posting. I'm a sticky note person and have them all over my desk. :) Think this is much better.