Just listened to a webinar on this. Gist was that a bound notebook was the worst for taking notes, because you couldn't just rip out pages and throw them in the in basket. Big legal pads are also non-optimal because they can collect too many ideas on a single sheet -- ideally, want each sheet to have a single item to process. So David and Kelly and Robert use half-size legal pads to take notes, rip off each page, and throw it into the inbasket for processing later.
My question -- what happens to this paper AFTER it is processed for next actions? My job is to learn new software packages, then show others how to succeed with them. So my notes contain more than action items -- they contain a lot of reference material. I LIKE a bound notebook with a whole set of sequential notes, which can eventually lead to hundreds of pages of 'how to', whether in the form of slides, labs, books, or help systems. If my notes were on hundreds of discrete pieces of paper, seems like my job would be much harder. So -- my other question -- is my job 'different'? Or am I just missing a golden opportunity to make my notes more discrete, allowing me to spread them all over a giant room and 'organize' them a bit?
My question -- what happens to this paper AFTER it is processed for next actions? My job is to learn new software packages, then show others how to succeed with them. So my notes contain more than action items -- they contain a lot of reference material. I LIKE a bound notebook with a whole set of sequential notes, which can eventually lead to hundreds of pages of 'how to', whether in the form of slides, labs, books, or help systems. If my notes were on hundreds of discrete pieces of paper, seems like my job would be much harder. So -- my other question -- is my job 'different'? Or am I just missing a golden opportunity to make my notes more discrete, allowing me to spread them all over a giant room and 'organize' them a bit?