My Note Taking Key
I’ve just started reading The Back of the Napkin which is apparently about Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, I’m interested in how this can improve my effectiveness so before I get too far with the book I thought it might be worth documenting what I have so far. Basically a personal short hand for taking notes. Not exactly a visual vocabulary for sure but it will be interesting to contrast this with where I end up after reading the book.
Like most people, this has evolved over time for taking notes in meetings, training, when reading, etc. I first noted this down when I covered it in some training I did on effective meetings a long time ago. The image below shows the key aspects of my key for note taking, mostly applicable to meetings. The key objective, of course, is to make sure I end up with a record of who, will do what, by when and also note informational items. All done in such a way that it’s easily extracted later (consistency being key here).
The key then looks like this…
An example of this in use might look like this…
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DB said,
February 8, 2010 @ 6:12 am
Sadly as a combination of GFW and useless VPN service that won’t connect (thanks cienen.com “Providing the Best VPN Services” my arse) all I can do is guess as to the extent of your genius as I can only see two large white squares where information should be
pete said,
February 8, 2010 @ 2:47 pm
@DB Sorry to hear that. I assume that clicking through to flickr didn’t help either?
I’ve emailed them to you, wouldn’t want you to miss out.
David said,
February 8, 2010 @ 3:06 pm
Thanks for the email. I can honestly say that Flickr isn’t blocked by the GFW. The entire interface works fine. You just can’t see the pictures