Writing and Productivity

This is currently my favourite tool for organising, planning and unloading. I got these magnetic whiteboards for four pounds each from Wilkinsons. Since I don't have any clear wall space in my workroom I attached them to my bookshelves - I knocked small nails into the edges of the shelves and put cable grips on the frames, so I can take them up and down or rearrange them according to my needs.

I've found these boards to be a really useful tool - I can scribble notes as they come to me, brainstorm and diagram freely over a large area, and they're highly visible, which is great for keeping ideas and intentions at the front of my mind.

Technically, I could do the same job with a personal wiki or simple text files, but being able to structure my ideas visually seems to help the way my mind works, and that blank white space is very inspiring when I'm unloading and expanding ideas.

When I need to clear a whiteboard for another purpose, I take a snap with my cameraphone - at intervals I unload the pictures into a dedicated folder in Picasa.

Labels: ideas, organisation, productivity, whiteboards, Wiki