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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: mrkev on April 30, 2018, 09:11:40 am
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Hi, I was wondering, what do you use for management of notes on your projects. I was used to use just paper, but that quickly becomes messy and you don't have the search option. Now I am sort of pusshed to write it all in Word, but that is becoming messy and clouded too.
Is there any popular program that could reliably manage notes (+pictures, graphs, etc.), preferably with some time stamp on each entry.
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Actually Word is quite good for annotations, revision and etc.
Heavily used in legal as there are always tons of revisions, when, why, by who and etc.
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I dont know, maybe I use the wront typology or something. All of those notes are mine, so I don't need to keep information about source, just the time stamp.
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I use Evernote. If you are just writing text and a few pics, the free plan would probably be fine for you.
I stash all my data sheets of interesting/useful chips and hard to find documents in there because it can text search PDFs, but that is a paid only feature.
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If you use MS Office anyway, OneNote is not bad for this. A simple editor with just enough formatting options for my taste; if you paste stuff from a website it will add an annotation indicating the source; and it has multiple hierarchy levels for sorting your pages ("books", chapters and page tabs).
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I use Evernote. If you are just writing text and a few pics, the free plan would probably be fine for you.
I stash all my data sheets of interesting/useful chips and hard to find documents in there because it can text search PDFs, but that is a paid only feature.
My wife bought a paid subscription to Evernote, and I am starting to use it for what you say above. datasheets, notes, notebook scribbles, anything project related which doesn't fit well in the Subversion repository.
Like any of these systems, it requires discipline to use and a good idea about how you want to organize yourself.