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Subject:Re: How you take notes in SME interviews From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net> To:Carrie Baker <carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com>, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:34:49 -0400
We have such a situation - wireless networking throughout the building
with secure VPN access to behind the firewall, and it's wonderful. I take
notes on my laptop all the time. I'm particularly fond of MS One Note - it
gives me a centralized note-taking application that's easily organized by
product or project and easyily searched.
The only problem with taking notes on a laptop is the inability to do a
quick sketch.
-Sue Gallagher
---- Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> My ideal is to have wifi throughout our building, and arm all writers
> with laptops. This way, no matter what your note-taking style, you can
> still have your computer there to either verify the SME's info
> against a current build of the product or write it up in the doc and
> immediately have the SME look at it to verify the content (quicker
> technical review turnaround).
>
> On 9/4/06, Carrie Baker <carriebak -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Maybe a silly question, but I was wondering
> > When you interview programers (or any other SMEs) about features you
> > have to document, do you make notes in a notebook and write them up,
> > or do you write directly into your computer....
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