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Sound Pilot... notebooks... backups... great stuff! :)
Hi Cornell,
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In his book, he says... "As anyone in my office knows when I’ve lost it, my most essential possession is a standard-sized school notebook, which can be bought at any stationery shop on any high street across the country. I carry this everywhere and write down comments made to me by Virgin staff and anyone else I meet. I make notes of all telephone conversations and all meetings, and I draft out letters to send and lists of telephone calls to make. Over the years I have worked my way through a bookcase of them, and the discipline of writing everything down ensures that I have to listen to people carefully."From an old post, here - http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=12318 (Also a little more here - http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9757 ) Quote:
Backups are essential! A few years ago, my hard drive on my laptop went dead. Fortunately, I had just backed up a couple days before it happened, so I only lost a couple days of data. (Including an article I had been writing - which was annoying - but it could have been much worse!) Nowadays, I'm also using "Carbonite" - http://www.carbonite.com . This is a paid solution ($59/year). It's a web-based automated backup service. I use it to keep my key files backed up as well. The nice thing about it is you don't have to think about it - it works automatically in the background. (I still do full backups too - though perhaps less often.) Another good thing about Carbonite is that if a file is accidentally erased or overwritten (so you can't get it back) - you can often retrieve it from your Carbonite backup. Quote:
I've used a transcription service in the past, though haven't used one for a while. I found that worked well. (For example, I've written articles that way.) I did use Sound Pilot too, it was cool! I don't have it now - I think it disappeared with that hard drive crash I mentioned earlier. However, it was nice. I think I'll re-install it! I'm a "sucker" for re-creating the "typewriting" experience. I remember enjoying writing by typing on a typewriter... Actually, I got out an old typewriter recently (my late father's old Hermes 3000 - he loved that model of typewriter; at one stage he had several of them). I used it to address an envelope, which is one of the things a typewriter is better at than a computer or printer - because you can position it accurately on the envelope! I found that my finger muscles aren't strong enough to touch type at a fast pace on a manual typewriter any more. I used to be able to do it! But all these years of using "soft" computer keyboards has meant my typing finger muscles have withered away! Thanks Cornell... Great stuff in your post. And I think I'll get Sound Pilot again! (I'm sure many "younger folks" will all think adding typewriter sounds to a computer is "crazy"...! ) Best wishes, Dien |
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