Igloo Notepads 2.0 and Getting Things Done
September 1, 2010
Following up on Samara’s Awesome Paper Folding Parties and the killer igloo notepads that are the result of said paper folding, I present you with notepad2.0.
Taking notes is great and all, especially in one of Samara’s notepads, but the only problem is you need to read through them again to remember what you or someone else had to do and if you’re at all like me (slightly scatterbrained), sometimes it’s difficult to work out what you were thinking when writing said note.
Solution: Add a to do list to your notepad pages
Only actionable items are put in this section, then when you’ve been in meetings back to back all day and your brain is fried, you can review your notes and have a clearly defined list of To Do Items for you or other team members.
There’s a whole methodology surrounding this sort of thing that I won’t really go into, but I’m finding it works well for me so I thought I’d share. I’ve put together a PDF template that breaks your pages up into, Notes, ToDo Items and Ideas for Later.
It pretty much does what it says on the tin, the only thing worth explaining is the “Ideas for later” section. In a brainstorm, lots of ideas get thrown around, some feasible and right for the brief, some awesome but off point for the task at hand. These are worth documenting for use at some point later on. Record them here so that in the future when you think “What was that cool thing that did the thing with the other thing” you can flip back through your notebook and presto, there it is! Booom!
Also, I’ve put a nice little dot grid on the notes pages for drawing your concept sketches. Yay!
Finally, you should probably check that your printer can run paper trough it twice so that you can still use the backs of your scrap paper and save a tree before you wind up in trouble with IT for screwing up the printer.
Here’s a PDF that I made especially for you. Enjoy! Now I can tick “write igloo blog post” off my list (see it works)
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