End of the year so of course it's time for my annual "I don't know how to organize my projects" question What are your best practices?
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I've been using evernote, with a page for each project, and I've tried having a personal slack with a channel for each project Now I'm thinking about having a spreadsheet? With different pages for "Data collected", "potential expts", "strains+info", etc etc?
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I use blue Pilot pens and a composition book, then when that runs out I get a new composition book. It is not the best technology, but I use it consistently, which is more than I can say for any other technology.
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I have huge notebooks full of this stuff that are sitting in drawers. I can never find what I'm looking for
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I use quad pads and just write everything there by date. If sharing with lab peeps we stuff everything in a google drive folder.
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I use Evernote religiously, with tags that implement my GTD todo list and tags per project/topic/people. Then of course there are slack channel, folders on Dropbox and folders on Google drive...
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I do something like this but it ends up being a mess, and I forget what I've put where, will drop some of them from time to time, etc. I need something streamlined somehow
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Yeah. This is where it comes back to "what will you use consistently?" If you can implement an evernote solution consistently, awesome! It's the consistency, rather than the medium, that matters most imo.
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It seems like you would optimally want some way to put all of these things in one easy to use place? Am I missing something/trying to add too much? Project management is hardpic.twitter.com/SFkyeIQMTU
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I'm doing something like this https://zapier.com/blog/zen-to-done-productivity/ … in Evernote, but then I have slack with others, files, code.. I do try to stick to a method rather than playing with tools - simple but consistent wins
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@NotionHQ is the way to go! I have one space for each project with pages and tables dedicated to to-do lists, ideas, experimental notes, notes on relevant paper, notes on experimental material... Made my life so much easier! -
That looks great! It's very close to what I'd have in mind if I made my own
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I've been using a Word document supplemented by everything else for decades. Adds about 150 pages per year. After about 1000 pages, word starts to take forever on auto saves
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Try Google Docs! Autosaves aren't a problem but it can take awhile to load...
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I’ve given up on fancy systems and just started keeping a plaintext/markdown lab notebook in a /docs folder in each project directory.
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I use OneNote. Each project has its own notebook, each notebook then has multiple sections, which have multiple pages. I use the desktop app and it syncs online. You can add collaborators to the notebook to share notes and simulations results. Love it
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I use Trello for organizing and have started to use OneNote for more details/running log
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I’ve got the end of year mess too…I like DevonThink for Mac which reminds me of electronic “TrapperKeeper”. Keeps all sorts of files together in a searchable database.
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Nothing consistent :(. Things I've tried with various success: Trello, gitlab boards/issues/todos, MacOS reminders, notes, markdown docs. I think all the really good project management systems cost $$.
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A mix of evernote and kanbans in trello. Tempted to start using the kanbans that github provides.
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Google Tasks
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