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Pavel
WinXP/ON2003: all latest patches
I've read most what I found about the organization of My Notebook, watched
the video, but I must be too dense to manage to setup my own with any
resemblance to consistent structure. Whatever I have now may make partial
sense now, but when I try to file, it is always a struggle to remember,
mainly because it lacks logical consistency and rational system. May be it
is because my engineering education and experience.
The structure itself (Sections, Folders, Pages, etc.) should be secondary to
a main "ideological" breakdown, rigid but flexible enough to allow tailoring
to individual needs. ON structure of Sections, etc. ought to have been
subservient to the "idea structure". One should be guided to answer some
(three or four) questions and the filing would then be clear and consistent.
I wish there would be a facility to print one's organization so one can
start making some sense of it; or copy it to Word and work with it.
Seems to me that people with filing and retrieving skills ought to have been
part of the ON design team (yes, I read Chris' Blog), for the filing is
"easy" but retrieving is the hardest part, flags help but are crude and
success of a search depends on ones ability to choose the right term.
I am retired and do not use ON for work, so most of what I do is "home"
related.
But since the hard structure is in place, what I am really looking for are
some examples from users of similar usage.
To illustrate, the following is my partial structure:
Sections:
Side Notes
General
Personal, House, Car (not all visible)
Media Clips
OneNote Tips
Computing
Music, Playback
WebClippings
Printed Pages
Plus there is couple of folders unrelated to this discussion
As you can see there's a mixture of formats with topics. Media Clips should
not really be there together with say Computing (there are also media clips
on some pages of this Section) or Music.
How do I file topics like these, which I now have as pages or subpages?
Hurricane Katrina
The Space Craft: How did you do that?
Housing Rental Agreement
Melanie Phillips's Diary (politics)
The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll (about New Orleans floods)
The Islamic Jihad: the Imperative of Holy War
Snow Plowing
Names of several commentators - their articles ought to really be filed
under a topic, rather than their name in Media Clippings
Quotes, Aphorisms, Humour
Districts Councillors
Etc.
Looks like I managed to even confuse myself. I am starting to imagine what
will others say, or worse, think and not say.
Can I be helped by ordinary people or should I see a shrink?
Thank you.
Pavel
I've read most what I found about the organization of My Notebook, watched
the video, but I must be too dense to manage to setup my own with any
resemblance to consistent structure. Whatever I have now may make partial
sense now, but when I try to file, it is always a struggle to remember,
mainly because it lacks logical consistency and rational system. May be it
is because my engineering education and experience.
The structure itself (Sections, Folders, Pages, etc.) should be secondary to
a main "ideological" breakdown, rigid but flexible enough to allow tailoring
to individual needs. ON structure of Sections, etc. ought to have been
subservient to the "idea structure". One should be guided to answer some
(three or four) questions and the filing would then be clear and consistent.
I wish there would be a facility to print one's organization so one can
start making some sense of it; or copy it to Word and work with it.
Seems to me that people with filing and retrieving skills ought to have been
part of the ON design team (yes, I read Chris' Blog), for the filing is
"easy" but retrieving is the hardest part, flags help but are crude and
success of a search depends on ones ability to choose the right term.
I am retired and do not use ON for work, so most of what I do is "home"
related.
But since the hard structure is in place, what I am really looking for are
some examples from users of similar usage.
To illustrate, the following is my partial structure:
Sections:
Side Notes
General
Personal, House, Car (not all visible)
Media Clips
OneNote Tips
Computing
Music, Playback
WebClippings
Printed Pages
Plus there is couple of folders unrelated to this discussion
As you can see there's a mixture of formats with topics. Media Clips should
not really be there together with say Computing (there are also media clips
on some pages of this Section) or Music.
How do I file topics like these, which I now have as pages or subpages?
Hurricane Katrina
The Space Craft: How did you do that?
Housing Rental Agreement
Melanie Phillips's Diary (politics)
The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll (about New Orleans floods)
The Islamic Jihad: the Imperative of Holy War
Snow Plowing
Names of several commentators - their articles ought to really be filed
under a topic, rather than their name in Media Clippings
Quotes, Aphorisms, Humour
Districts Councillors
Etc.
Looks like I managed to even confuse myself. I am starting to imagine what
will others say, or worse, think and not say.
Can I be helped by ordinary people or should I see a shrink?
Thank you.
Pavel