How do you take notes? Here’s my list of techniques in order of preference using a heuristic which is some function of efficiency, persistence, and privacy:
Full-finger-typing on a regular-size keyboard
Writing with a pen/pencil on paper
Thumb-typing on a small QWERTY keyboard
Stylus recognition on a touchscreen
Voice notes
Scoring the flesh of my forearm in Morse Code with a rusty Bowie knife
I recently got ahold of a nice MacBook Pro and I’m using it as my primary Windows box at work. It’s nice and snappy and I like it, but I’m having trouble getting used to the keyboard, let alone the one-button mousepad. I thought I’d use this post to collapse several google searches into one location. I’ll likely add to this list as I learn more tricks. Read the rest of this entry …
As originally discussed here and reported on here, I keep most of my work in Subversion repositories. Since starting doing this it’s been much easier to migrate from one machine to another and continue working. However, there are down sides to using Subversion. I thought I would lay out what I would consider to be the best method of storing/accessing my documents. Read the rest of this entry …