Thursday 23 August 2007

Back from vacation!

Well I'm back from my welldeserved vacation, with a notebook full of ideas, research and plans for the next months. I am planning to keep a little more up to date with this blog. I will be posting a lot of ideas and projects here I want to accomplish the in the near future. In this post I want to list some of these ideas and goals for myself.

For first I would like to keep my ideas, todo's and other musings in one place and I have been looking for an efficient way to do this. I have been looking in a way to be more productive and do more with the time I have available so a system would be the way to go. One of the picfalls of this line of thinking I have noticed in myself is that the looking and trying out all the ways available is an intersting exercise in itself and takes a lot of time. So at first I will go for a simple pen and paper system which will hold everything. One time a day I will have to do a review of all the items I jot down during the day and put them into this system. I mostly have multiple places I keep notes (work, home, car and other locations) and will have to consolidate this into 1 masterlist of things to do, ideas to work out and research to do.

One of the projects I have been doing in the last years has been the binding of books. I like to process of binding and there is a lot of creativity in this. In those years I have bound a surprising number of books and have learned a lot of tricks of the trade. This information is gleaned from online research and needs to be written down and published. I want to make a custom book for all the planning and goal information which is easily updated and all information will be at hand when I need it.

Online solutions would actually be a better idea to hold this information and to have access to everything on the fly, wherever I am, but this will be the next step and will be at least half a year before I implement this.

Another project idea I had is to help me in my research. It would be a way to keep all the links/bookmarks and notes for a certain subject automatically and make it searchable and indexed. This is something I am exploring requirements at the moment and you will hear more about this later.

Also I will probably make some posts about my vacation and post some of the pictures I have taken. For sure there will be a post about a phenomenon I have seen in greek licenseplates which form words in another language.

//Z

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