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Comment Too much good advice. (Score 5, Insightful) 370

Want to know how to sort it all out? Get some sticky notes, and a whiteboard. Write down each suggestion on a sticky note, and stick in on the whiteboard. Step back... look at it. Move some notes around. Group them. Get a dry-erase marker, and draw some boxes, circles, and arrows. Throw away the redundant notes. Repeat. Call in a co-worker. Repeat. Call in your boss. Repeat... as necessary. Now, take a picture of the whiteboard. Get a notepad, and summarize what you've found. Oh... and all those software tools and processes you were thinking about for knowledge capture? None of them work as well as a whiteboard and a pad of sticky notes. That's because none of them let you work unconstrained by artificial structure, and none of them let you step back and take in the whole of your work. By the way -- the second best tool for knowledge capture is a cocktail napkin.

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