Comments on: 5 steps to capturing and storing your ideas http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/ Advice for graduate students on creativity, scholarship, communication, and time management Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: gradschoolsurvival http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-9776 gradschoolsurvival Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:09:25 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-9776 great article. I have just written something similar to this on my blog. I focused on capturing incoming information, then another blog on organizing that information. By the way great site. I enjoyed your reading list! great article. I have just written something similar to this on my blog. I focused on capturing incoming information, then another blog on organizing that information.

By the way great site. I enjoyed your reading list!

]]> By: Steve http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-5697 Steve Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:16:27 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-5697 Sorry, my MISTAKE For the post above, please read: 1)”You need an arena for right-brain play” 2)”You need an arena for left-brain play” Sorry, my MISTAKE
For the post above, please read:
1)”You need an arena for right-brain play”
2)”You need an arena for left-brain play”

]]> By: Steve http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-5696 Steve Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:14:30 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-5696 1)"You need an arena for right-brain play" 2)"You need an arena for right-brain play" I like GoalEnforcer http://www.goalenforcer.com/ I use the brainstorm mode for 1), and then I use the drag-and-drop + clipboard area to re-organize my plan in a step by step fashion, 2) 1)”You need an arena for right-brain play”
2)”You need an arena for right-brain play”
I like GoalEnforcer http://www.goalenforcer.com/
I use the brainstorm mode for 1), and then I use the drag-and-drop + clipboard area to re-organize my plan in a step by step fashion, 2)

]]> By: Chris http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-5078 Chris Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:50:58 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-5078 Post-its!! Right on. Post-its and notecards - i.e., physical pieces of rather durable paper that you can literally shuffle to get organized - are definitely the way to go. I tend to have five or six documents (at least) going at a time when I'm working on a paper or a story. It's a tremendous relief that what I thought was disorganization on my part is actually fairly systematic. Darn it all, though: I'm going to have to get a Mac before I start working on my PhD, aren't I?... Post-its!! Right on. Post-its and notecards - i.e., physical pieces of rather durable paper that you can literally shuffle to get organized - are definitely the way to go. I tend to have five or six documents (at least) going at a time when I’m working on a paper or a story. It’s a tremendous relief that what I thought was disorganization on my part is actually fairly systematic.

Darn it all, though: I’m going to have to get a Mac before I start working on my PhD, aren’t I?…

]]> By: Trine Kolding » Keep it simple http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-1557 Trine Kolding » Keep it simple Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:30:03 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-1557 [...] etc. og er målrettet studerende, men det gør den nu ikke mindre interessant. F.eks. anviser den 5 trin til at holde styr på og opbevare sine idéer. Det er gode, simple tips til, hvordan du hurtigt kan lave et idéarkiv, der er nemt at have [...] [...] etc. og er målrettet studerende, men det gør den nu ikke mindre interessant. F.eks. anviser den 5 trin til at holde styr på og opbevare sine idéer. Det er gode, simple tips til, hvordan du hurtigt kan lave et idéarkiv, der er nemt at have [...]

]]> By: links for 2007-04-01 « a historian’s craft http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-616 links for 2007-04-01 « a historian’s craft Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:22:56 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-616 [...] 5 steps to capturing and storing your ideas « Getting Things Done in Academia how organized. I am all about a tornado of post-its, and a proliferation of confusingly-named .txt files (tags: academic learning research tips lifehacks useful) [...] [...] 5 steps to capturing and storing your ideas « Getting Things Done in Academia how organized. I am all about a tornado of post-its, and a proliferation of confusingly-named .txt files (tags: academic learning research tips lifehacks useful) [...]

]]> By: I Know What I Know » Blog Archive » Getting Things Done In Academia http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-495 I Know What I Know » Blog Archive » Getting Things Done In Academia Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:47:25 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-495 [...] Advice for graduate students on staying organized. This is also valuable information for faculty, too. One of the things I’ve found since I became faculty is that the old system of note-taking I developed as a student (using a legal pad+manilla folders) doesn’t really work all that well for me anymore. Instead, I now tote around a Moleskine notebook and just keep everything in it. Interestingly, I find that I’m able to find stuff remarkably quickly in it—so much so that people will ask a question about a meeting several weeks ago and I can turn right to the page containing those notes. I’m not a GTD guy; I find that those pre-fab systems don’t work well for me. A while back, a friend set me up with an “inbox”—the shibboleth of the GTD system. Inboxes work great, I think, if they can contain things that can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. But my job routinely requires me to live six months ahead, and I get documents that I need to deal with, but often not for weeks or months. The result is that within 2 weeks, my inbox was a foot tall with things I needed to deal with in upcoming months but could not deal with immediately. Or even in a reasonable amount of time. [...] [...] Advice for graduate students on staying organized. This is also valuable information for faculty, too. One of the things I’ve found since I became faculty is that the old system of note-taking I developed as a student (using a legal pad+manilla folders) doesn’t really work all that well for me anymore. Instead, I now tote around a Moleskine notebook and just keep everything in it. Interestingly, I find that I’m able to find stuff remarkably quickly in it—so much so that people will ask a question about a meeting several weeks ago and I can turn right to the page containing those notes. I’m not a GTD guy; I find that those pre-fab systems don’t work well for me. A while back, a friend set me up with an “inbox”—the shibboleth of the GTD system. Inboxes work great, I think, if they can contain things that can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. But my job routinely requires me to live six months ahead, and I get documents that I need to deal with, but often not for weeks or months. The result is that within 2 weeks, my inbox was a foot tall with things I needed to deal with in upcoming months but could not deal with immediately. Or even in a reasonable amount of time. [...]

]]> By: How do you keep track of your ideas? « peregrina historiae http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-456 How do you keep track of your ideas? « peregrina historiae Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:59:53 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-456 [...] Check the full description at Getting Things Done in Academia  [...] [...] Check the full description at Getting Things Done in Academia  [...]

]]> By: Mike http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-197 Mike Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:49:12 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-197 I must admit, I never knew an alternative definition of curate was "a person invested with the care, or cure (cura) of souls." I used it as the verb, "to manage and maintain a collection". Though, come to think of it, a blend of the two was what I really had in mind... I must admit, I never knew an alternative definition of curate was “a person invested with the care, or cure (cura) of souls.” I used it as the verb, “to manage and maintain a collection”. Though, come to think of it, a blend of the two was what I really had in mind…

]]> By: Anon. http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-194 Anon. Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:57:59 +0000 http://eebatou.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/5-steps-to-capturing-and-storing-your-ideas/#comment-194 Curate is not an appopriate word. GTD is stupid. VLR! Death to GTD. Curate is not an appopriate word. GTD is stupid. VLR! Death to GTD.

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