Comments on: One project: one project log

By: Mark Cook

Mark Cook — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:03:04 +0000

You should really take a close look at Microsoft OneNote. It’s changing the way I work.

By: Full Grown Single

Full Grown Single — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:48:16 +0000

Ah. Run a ring through the end of it and chain it to your backpack. As long as you resist the urge to wash that, you’ll be fine.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:17:47 +0000

MB: I never thought about it before (I switched from MSWord to Omnioutliner for my log files) but yeah, that is one ugly style sheet.

FGS: The problem I have with flash drives is the same problem I have with good pens. I love them. They are useful, elegant tools. And, in my experience, p(going through the wash) = x*value, where x is a scalar.

MG: In MSWord outline view, + is followed by text, and - is has no text. It allows you to collapse or expand blocks of text, which is why some +’s are followed by a gray line, not text.

By: Marie G

Marie G — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:39:25 +0000

What’s the significance of the plus and minus?

By: Full Grown Single

Full Grown Single — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:05:03 +0000

Have you tried doing a wiki-on-a-stick (flash drive)? Very handy when you’ve got a whole bunch of kinds of notes. Then you can have the ms, a journal, a bunch of spreadsheets, and your collection of menus from local carryout places all in one handy file!

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:32:06 +0000

Given the hideously ugly heading formatting in the default Word setup, I would create an outline template (call it outline.dot) and then modify the formatting so that Heading 1s were bold, then Headings 2-9 would be in the same typeface.

If you were so inclined, you could also choose to have the paragraphs numbered, but numbering in Word can get hairy.

I hasten to add that this would look good for printouts from the outline.dot template, but if you pasted them into a Word file based on a different template, you might get unexpected consequences, so try it out first!