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Let us now praise Post-it notes
Merlin Mann | Apr 18 2005
Phil Gyford has a neat trick, by which he adds a few large Post-it notes to the inside cover of a book he’s starting to read. Handy way to make notes on the go. I’m also a big fan of these removable/re-placeable Avery Write-On tabs, which you can stick in the front cover of your Moleskine or similar notebook. Makes it easy to do the Jerry Brito trick—creating ad hoc sections and shifting the location of your current TODO page, etc. In other news, Amazon should be delivering my copy of Rapid Problem Solving with Post-it Notes tomorrow. Dunno if it’ll be any good, but it does look intriguing and got good reviews. Got a good sticky-note trick to share? Planning? Brainstorming? Contextual notes? 36 Comments
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 Post-Its are good in a...Submitted by Kyle (not verified) on April 18, 2005 - 9:12am.
Post-Its are good in a lot of places that index cards also work. Last year, I was given a really large project where each sub-area was a project on its own, but with horrible interdependencies. As I realized this, I finally wrote each sub-project on a Post-It, stuck them on a whiteboard, and created "generations" of dependencies: the left-most column had no depednecies, the next column depended on the left column, the next depended on a combination of the first two, etc. Then I was able to draw on the whiteboard itself to detail the relationships. This made explaining matters to management much more straightforward. I could have done it with index cards but they have a tendency to not stay in one spot on a desk as you're moving their neighbors around. » POSTED IN:
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