Note cards

[lalou]

Does anyone keep track of techniques they learn?

I mean writing them down with explanation of what they are and how to make them?

or is it just me and my forgetful mind?

I have note cards in alphabetical order, explanations, directions, pictures etc........ so when i' m working on a pattern that has a knot in it i don't
remember i just pull my cards out

i know they must have a book out there with all this information in it.

[Tammy]

WOW!!! What a great idea. I think I should start something like this. It would work for other fiber arts too.

You say 'cards', do you mean like 3x5 recipe type of cards?

I think as I'm teaching a few people to tat in our Crafters' Circle I will strongly suggest this idea to them.

[carolivy]

Sounds like an interesting idea! Great start to a book, maybe?

[Nancy in Dallas]

Wonderful idea! I use a note book binder and each pattern I make I have all my notes, and even a sample to refer back to.

[tattrldy]

Wow! You guys are so organized! I've meant to do the note thing - even started once or twice - then I get busy and don't finish. I'm very impressed lalou and Nancy!

[ldr103]

I've thought about it, but I'm a fly-by the-seat-of-my-pants tatter and I just make it up as I go along. However, I do keep pretty close track of my experiments in dyeing--I keep a recipe book and stick samples in it so I can reproduce colors.

[PattyD]

Your idea is so simple, straight forward and absolutely brilliant! I will begin making my cards today!

[Lynn]

Cards would get misplaced too easily in my house. I try to keep track of all my interests online through bookmarks. I made a Google document in which I enter URLs along with a description of the technique. This list if bookmarks was once just the normal bookmark list for Firefox, but after losing all of them, I decided to back them up on Google. Now, remembering to transfer new bookmarks is a different story.

[carolivy]

Cards would get misplaced too easily in my house. I try to keep track of all my interests online through bookmarks. I made a Google document in which I enter URLs along with a description of the technique. This list if bookmarks was once just the normal bookmark list for Firefox, but after losing all of them, I decided to back them up on Google. Now, remembering to transfer new bookmarks is a different story.

I Export all of my Bookmarks about once a month (sometimes more than that if I have Bookmarked lots of stuff or deleted a lot of old links that no longer work). Then when I back up my computer to my external hard-drive, I have all my Internet Bookmarks saved as well. Came in REAL handy a couple weeks ago when my computer crashed! After I got back up and running, all I had to do was Import those Bookmarks and I was back in business.

[Tammy]

Right now I can't remember how I did it but years ago I saved all my bookmarks/favorites to a htm or html file then opened it in word and saved it as a doc. I printed out a copy too so that if I had a major system failure I could get to them. This was back before SD cards, thumb/flash/jump drives I think I had saved it to a 3.5 too. Gene just bought us a TB external hard drive so everything will be going on that. :D

I bet we could come up with a data base for doing our note cards on the computer. Can't wait to get my hands on future DIL's Access college books.