I pulled out all of the journals I’ve written over the years. (They don’t look as neat as this photo, but you get the idea). The first journal goes back to 2008. That’s when I started at LANDesk. It has my manager’s card stapled to the front cover. My first week there was taking a Contextual Design class. I had had exposure to this when I was at Novell. It was nice to be taking a class in something that I was familiar with. I took lots of notes during that class.

I know I have other notebooks, but I think most of them were digital. I don’t know why I switched to hard-copy at that point.

My other log files are now stored in my D drive D:/documents/logs on my desktop computer. Most of these are logs of what I was doing from day to day at work.

I found that I would often solve a problem only to encounter it again a few days, weeks or months later. I would have to go through the recreation effort to resolve the problem. It was at that point that I decided to keep a daily log of my work activities. Then when I solved a problem, I would document how I did so. If I encountered the same problem, I would go back to my logs and try to determine how I solved it last time. This would save me a lot of time over the years.

Anyway, these logs are mostly full of day-to-day work logs and are not at all interesting now.

I’m trying to figure out how to capture what’s in these journals for my posterity.

Put something here – is the related images still here?