A couple of changes today. First of all, an upgrade of the iPad to iOS11 version 8, which adds in a bit more support for Pencil, and then a shift over to the Microsoft OneNote tool from Evernote. On the OS upgrade, I'm so new to the whole world of iOS that I'm struggling to … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 3
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A day of chugging along with Evernote today. A few more suggestions from others about alternative software, but for the most part they are all iOS or iOS/MacOS only, so fail on the multiple platform test. However, Mark Wilson reminded me that OneNote is cross platform. I'd also forgotten that, unlike much of the Office … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 2
And so the experiment begins. A few waves of good luck from the Twitter masses, a few expressions of interest in the outcomes, and one person commenting that I'll be back on the PC before I know it (an interesting immediate misinterpretation of the word "notebook"). I fired up Evernote, swiped the Pencil across the … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 1
I'm a notebook junkie. I'm currently toting a rather fetching Leuchtturm1917 in a very fetching orange. After much experiementation over the years, my pen of choice is the Pentel Sign Pen, usually in blue or black. I love the immediacy of paper and pen. I love the tactility. It helps me to think, to explain, to … Continue reading Going notebookless
After many years of increasing professionalism, and the rise of complex management frameworks, the world of business technology management is now in a stat of turmoil. Put simply: nobody really these days has the first clue on how you manage information technology in a big business. It had got relatively clear. Technology was a cost … Continue reading Shifting the balance
Picture the scene. We've created a multi-sheet Excel workbook, maybe with links into other workbooks, and it's used by a dozen people in our department. Gill who originally created the spreadsheet left the organisation years ago. But we've managed to keep it going, adding duplicate sheets where we weren't entirely clear how Gill's formulae and … Continue reading Data-based organisations
Back in my later days at BBC Worldwide in the early 2000s, I commissioned a piece of research to look at the habits that our staff had in their use of file storage and email. The work, looking back, was relatively unusual. I brought in a social scientist to do a piece of ethnographic research … Continue reading The ubiquitous inbox
I'm currently reading Tim Harford's excellent new tome Fifty Things that made the Modern Economy. Based on his BBC Radio series, it charts ideas and objects that have created the world around us today. Some of them are obvious (the Light Bulb), some of them less so (the Billy Bookcase). In his description of the … Continue reading The middle of the journey
Picture the scene. A modern office. Open plan. A bank of eight desks, two rows of four, facing each other. Screens, laptops. Six of the eight desks are occupied. Two are empty but with coats hanging over the backs of chairs, the workplace equivalent of a towel on a sun lounger. Five of the six … Continue reading Finding the right space
Back in my days at the BBC (an increasingly distant memory - it’s nearly 13 years now since I left) I was involved in a project that created the first full-programme online streaming service. It was back in around 2001, a time before YouTube if you can imagine such a thing. The service was aimed … Continue reading The trouble with saving cost
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