RE: How you take notes in SME interviews

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

I occasionally take my laptop, but usually only when I'm making changes
to documents that already exist.

The advantage to the bits-of-paper approach is the flexibility.  I don't
know about you, but I'm not just writing notes; I'm putting in arrows
from one note to another, drawing quick diagrams, handing the notebook
to the programmer so +they+ can draw quick diagrams.  What I end up with
isn't straight text, it's a load of scribbles at different angles that
all link up, and which I then have to translate into a linear format.

A laptop might look more professional, but if you take notes anything
like the way I do, it's just not going to do the job as well.

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Sarah Bouchier 
Technical Author 

exony 
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