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- Always have a pen
- Calendars are for Appointments
- Choose Your Pen
- Commonplace Book
- Displacement Activity
- Fountain Pens
- Front Matter
- Good Home
- Improve The Moment
- Incremental Formalization
- Information Triage
- Meta Space
- Moleskines
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- Prep Your Pages
- Reading
- Sketching in Airports
- Storm Sort
- Tinderbox: Automatic Prototypes
- Tinderbox: Color Schemes
- Tinderbox: Prototypes
- To Do
- Weekly Sweep
- Write It Down
- You Need Two Journals
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from a Tinderbox map by Professor Julie Tolmie, exploring connections in a set of several hundred patterns for game design. Presented at Tinderbox Weekend Paris, Spring 2005.
You need two journals: one that can be always handy (and which is often on paper) and one that is permanent, intelligent, and easy to search. Tinderbox is ideal for your permanent information store.
Sweep all your paper notes into your Tinderbox file periodically -- every morning, or once a week.
It's important to establish the habit of writing things down immediately and to establish a rhythm of moving these jottings into your permanent store. The purpose of the weekly sweep is not improving or editing or polishing, though some people like to do a little cleaning as they copy. The point is twofold:
- The purpose of writing things down is to remember, to make the information and ideas available to you later. The weekly sweep lets you reflect on your recent ideas and decide which ideas need to be pursued at once and to arrange for a subsequent review after a suitable interval.
- By moving things into a smart and permanent storage medium, you make them available for searching and for analysis. Your Tinderbox can automatically scan, categorize, and sort ideas, and Tinderbox maps and attributes can help you discover patterns and reveal structure. Fast search and secure backup ensure that you'll be able to find your notes later and that you'll have them handy when you need them.
Get into the habit. Scan the drawings, transcribe the text. Get your material where you can search it, scan it, organize it. Do it now.