It was @DataInadequate who sent me my first few “Field Notes” in response to my usage of Moleskine Journals for blogging. At the time I decided against using them for the blog as I felt it would break the continuity of the books.
However I continued to carry the Field Notes notebooks with me and they soon transplanted my moleskine journal as a means for occasional note and thought scribbling.
I am grateful that John introduced me Field Notes as until then I was carrying two moleskines around and the bulk of two books was too(hah) much. These slimmer memo books are a similar size if not depth to the Moleskine Journals and the paper and build quality of the notebooks is hard wearing and resilient to my in out, drop , place, cover, spill and walking lifestyle.
I start each new book with a thought on the front cover and when complete I review them for pertinent data that might need to be carried forward , in which case it is stored in @evernote and then the books are archived. I am not going back; I will continue to use my Moleskine for the purpose of writing the blog but I urge you to take a chance on Field Notes as an alternative. Somehow your thoughts feel like they are working if they are written between those brown covers.
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12412Project : GitHub January
When Clive Walker pointed out the 12412 Project on twitter I signed up , well okay I committed to taking part . The prospect of committing myself to learning 1 new skill set every month in 2012 as a process to focus on pushing myself beyond some of my existing skill sets appealed because it was non invasive to my time and improved my exposure to new toolsets.
In January I committed to learning about Git and GitHub and after 4 weeks I can now confirm that I have left my old roots of CVS behind and have moved one of my core client projects into a private Github repository.
What I learnt about Github was less about Github but more about my approach to learning a new subject or toolset. In simple terms these broke down to
In 4 weeks my grasp of Github and git for my development toolset is sufficient for me to move forward. Whats for February ? Well you will just have to add me to your feed reader.
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