Gotta love them stickie notes

[awriter12.livejournal.com]

So since I have put my self on a schedule to finish this story and hopefully get the second draft on its way after some much needed editing and plot hole patch ups. I have mostly today actually started using sticky notes. I have a pad of them beside me right now, and they are possibly the most wonderful thing right now.

Usually I use cue card/ recipe card and I write on them and stick them up on my cork board( I have a major school sized one in my bedroom...it is currently full with another stories characters and plots and such) but I have found the great thing about sticky notes and that is hat they are STICKY, I've probably got about nine or ten attached to the page I just wrote with like simple things like D=lb so A=db therefore And=ab? now I know those don't make a lick of sense to anyone here simply because I have not posted anything about this story on here. But that's besides the point.

Now that I have all of these obscure little sticky notes all over my page, I'm wondering if I remember what half of them will mean when I go through and write the second draft? It's a possibility that some of them will have the most likely reaction of WTF? Such as one that is cat=mother?=Da+Dar=A. But that ones just a reminder to me while I write for this week.

So I'm wondering how you guys/galls organize little notes, do you use Sticky notes? Recipe cards? Do you just put a note in your computer? On your cellphone? On a voice recorder?

Comments

[unchristened.livejournal.com]

I make notes like that. Usually on my dry erase board or on little post-its, or, if the story's only in a digital format, I make them in italics in a different color.

It's been my experience, though, that if you go back and look at the notes and have the WTF reaction, whatever idea you were trying to express in that note probably wasn't as good/important/relevant as it seemed at the time, and, for me at least, it's been the kind of idea that once I did remember it, I was glad I'd forgotten it. Does that make sense?

[okmewriting.livejournal.com]

I've started using OneNote. It's fantastic.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA102005461033.aspx
http://www.notetalkers.com/2006/03/20/onenote-2007-video-tutorial-and-walkthrough/

I still have notebooks to hand for when I'm not close by a computer.

[davien.livejournal.com]

I use scrivener.

[magaly-guerrero.livejournal.com]

I keep a notebook with me. I've tried using stickie notes, but ended up spending a bunch of time trying to figure out what I was thinking at the time.

Good luck keeping it together...