The Notes

Everyday at work, we are flooded with lots of small, small information/notes/Todos like “call onsite at 6:00″ or “Apache server port is 9050″, “Ms. X’s mobile # ****”, etc. But, how do we organize and keep these notes? What’s the effective way to store this kinda small, small information?

One way is to use the age-old, non-fancy Notepad. Currently this is the method, I’m using to store these notes. If you look at the +’s of this approach, simple, easy, familiar interface. And the -’s, less feature, no usability, plain-text, not able to create note hierarchies.

The other way would be (no.no. ‘Ghajini’ method is not accepted! ) using a software like OneNote and FreeMind to store these notes. These apps allows us to store notes in different hierarchy/tabs, give different colors to the notes, reminder features, organize TODOs, etc. But the -’s of this approach, I would say, the time to store a new note in the system, when compared with Notepad. i.e. to add a new note to Notepad, just open, type and save, your note is added. But, in the application’s like OneNote, you need to do a little more to add a new note. So, while working, this kinda ‘note saving’ is little distracting. So, I’ll prefer Notepad, than OneNote!

So, what do you do to store and organize your notes!?