Supples’ Pub

I’ve been periodically visiting this blog/news site for a while, when their posts about Lenovo products started showing up in my Google alerts. This is a long, but great post about the author’s mobile productivity. It covers the author’s usage of technology throughout an average day for him, consisting of a lot of travelling from site to site for meetings and maintaining connectivity & productivity while going from A to B.

I think everyone could take a nugget or two from this on mobile productivity, I know I did. 

I also fire up OneNote from within Outlook 2007 by clicking on the “meeting notes” icon while the meeting appointment is highlighted on the calendar.  OneNote fires up with the appropriate meeting particulars properly noted at the top of the page I will use to ink notes for the meeting.  The notes in OneNote will also be linked back to the calendar item should I need to determine that in the future.  I start inking my notes as I always do much the same as the other attendees are doing on their note pads using pens.  The main difference is my notes are already filed in the appropriate project file and of course my notes are fully searchable using the awesome search function in Windows Vista.

I use that search several times during the meeting as I have to find a few references from earlier project meetings.  OneNote finds them in less than two seconds in every case and my memory is refreshed with particulars of the matters at hand.  There is no substitute for this capability and it drives my whole effectiveness in doing what I do for my clients.  Throughout the course of the meeting I refer to documentation about the project that I have received from the contractor, something I can do because every single document or workstation screen image I receive gets “printed” into the OneNote project file using the virtual printer driver that is installed along with OneNote 2007.  I refer back to the latest status report and quickly point out some inconsistencies between that report and what we are being told in this meeting.  There is no argument so effective as one that is backed up by showing them their own report on my Tablet. This keeps the meeting on track and moving forward quite nicely and the two hours passes quickly.

Source: jkOnTheRun: A day in the life- a tale of two tablets