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- From: rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Managing Notes
- Message-ID: <ZTgJsB4w165w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 15:57:10 GMT
- References: <16244@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- Alan_Barclay@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan Barclay) writes:
-
- > I keep track of notes with file folders. I have one for each current
- > project plus others with titles like "Names", "Characters", "Story Ideas",
- > "Technology", etc.
- >
- > I find notemaking is part of the creative process. I throw out a lot of
- > scrap paper. This is one process I do with pen and paper. I find I have to
- > be able to doodle and draw connecting lines in order to think things
- > through. Also, I want to be able to jot something down when I think of it.
- > For these reasons, I don't use my computer much when making these sort of
- > notes.
-
- Hmm. Unfortunately I suffer from such poor fine motor
- coordination that I can't read what I have written more than five
- minutes after I have written it, so I can't use that idea, which
- intuitively sounds right -- the lines and doodles and all.
-
- > I do use a
- > program for collecting notes, quotes, etc. that I get from
- > downloads. It's called Lotus Agenda. It is an inverted database
- > where one can enter data first, then assign categories to each piece of data
- > whenever one feels like it. You can then view all data in a particular
- > category, etc. It's quite flexible, and has a lot of interesting
- > possibilities. Unfortunately, the manual manages to obscure and complicate
- > an essentially simple program--but that seems to be a standard for most
- > business software.
- > --
- > Alan Barclay
-
- I'll read the box next time I'm in Egghead Software. What is
- Lotus Agenda? Is it a PIM? Lotus Magellan is a file handler,
- isn't it? (I use List and a shareware program called Directory
- Magic to search files.) So Agenda must be something other than a
- file handler.
-
- --
- Richard Carlson
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