How do you do it? In this day and age of there being an app for everything, does anyone still take notes by hand? Shopping lists? To-do lists? Notes to self? Post-it reminders?
I use OneNote (synced to every device I have) to keep track of most of my life, from copies of important documents I might occasionally need to the list of Christmas gifts ideas for every person in our family to layouts I want to make to literally everything else I don't want to lose track of. I have a separate app for my grocery shopping list. I am never too far away from my phone. The one thing I never use my phone for is reminders. I just LOVE pen and paper and post-it notes. My handwriting is terrible, my notes are messy and nowhere near as organized as the 15 neat folders with their 20-odd neat pages in my OneNote. And yet...
As I am typing this, my forearms are resting on a stack of A4's (placed between the keyboard and myself) that I use to jot down whatever pops into my mind, from lesson ideas for a student (I am a teacher) to catchy phrase I might use for one of my layouts to a dish I would like to try. There's a cute little block of yellow post-its that I use to plan - buy cat food, write to N, schedule a doctor's appointment, that sort of thing... and there's also a small notepad (received as a gift) that I use for thinking out loud - scribbling numbers, names, etc... Anyone can relate?
I use OneNote (synced to every device I have) to keep track of most of my life, from copies of important documents I might occasionally need to the list of Christmas gifts ideas for every person in our family to layouts I want to make to literally everything else I don't want to lose track of. I have a separate app for my grocery shopping list. I am never too far away from my phone. The one thing I never use my phone for is reminders. I just LOVE pen and paper and post-it notes. My handwriting is terrible, my notes are messy and nowhere near as organized as the 15 neat folders with their 20-odd neat pages in my OneNote. And yet...
As I am typing this, my forearms are resting on a stack of A4's (placed between the keyboard and myself) that I use to jot down whatever pops into my mind, from lesson ideas for a student (I am a teacher) to catchy phrase I might use for one of my layouts to a dish I would like to try. There's a cute little block of yellow post-its that I use to plan - buy cat food, write to N, schedule a doctor's appointment, that sort of thing... and there's also a small notepad (received as a gift) that I use for thinking out loud - scribbling numbers, names, etc... Anyone can relate?
I have One Note, but usually forget to use it, and organized and neat? Holey moley it is not. I love post it notes, I can never remember all of them and there are a couple that I don't use often that I have on Post it notes stuck to the bottom of my monitor. I use Outlook Calendar for reminders and sometimes I even resort to Alexa and I have a reminder app on my computertoto keep track of Cheery O duties. When I'm at my desk, which is most of the time since I came to the O in April, I have a pencil and a free pad from somewhere or other and pencil in my desk draw. I'll write down whatever it is I happen to need to remember, which is almost everything, I'll write down quick information and then that paper lays on my desk for the next thing I need to jot down. I just keep using it, both sides, until I fill it up. If it's something I decide I need then I'll try to figure out a logical place to put it. Most things are scrap related, so I have a different folder in my Oscraps supplies file. I always use pencil at my desk, if I have a pen out, I'm such a ditz, i would probably mindlessly grab it, the mindlessly is most of the time, and write on my graphics tablet and for that reason am psurprisingly goodat keeping those implements in my desk drawer. Now hubs is totally pencil & paper which is not surprising.
The computer has ruined my handwriting so everything looks pretty gnarly...ugh. I also have oodles of random post it notes all piled up on my desk and several notebooks that I have scribled stuff in. I recently bought myself an adorable day planner so I can keep better track of when different projects are due at the two stores I am in now. I haven't been using it as much as I should though 
I thought "well, this year (2024) I WILL use one even if only for our Art biz. That lasted 3 months!!! HA! 
