I was reading one of the replies on this thread when I had a bit on an epiphany. Everything that the repliers mentioned made sense to me. As much as I like my Palm, I’ve learned to not use it for day-to-day to-do keeping. So instead, I have continued to keep notes on paper and use the PDA for long-term data and for calendar items, so that it reminds me of things, usually by making some noise with an alarm. However, there is one method that I’ve noticed that I come back to, every 1 to 2 years, and that is using blank paper, specifically a blank notepad, as the first reply mentions. This will seem odd but some woman in this D*I*Y groups was mentioning that she works better with blank pages (she was asking how to remove the lines from one of the templates). After reading this, her theory makes more sense to me. I remember that Tommy Hood would always use a legal pad, except that he wrote all over it, ignoring the lines. Lol, I think that me and the woman I mentioned see it same: lines ‘fence’ us in. Lines kind of equate to rules; i.e. lines mean you ‘have’ to do it a certain way, which might change your flow of thinking. Anyhoo, sorry for the long path through the forest to get to this conclusion: instead of coming back around to blank notepads, I need to start from that point this time around.
I even use the checklists like replier #3 talks about. I’ve used them for many years, without even giving them a whole lot of thought; they were just my set of instructions on how to do something. The major processes I performed with Sales Based Replenishment and PO Amendments had at least one checklist backing them. And I now do the same thing in catalog. A good process to stick with, I think.
Thanks ….
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