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How did you really learn a foreign language? | biohacker42: Quality of education. You're far from the only American I've heard say: I took x years of y and can't even say 'hi' in y.I don't know what American schools do wrong, but Europeans have little trouble teaching kids to have a working knowledge of foreign languages in the same number of years.The brute force ... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | alain94040: Spend your next one-month vacation in the country whose language you want to learn. It's that simple.In the meantime, read all the books you can so you don't start from zero when you get there (although it will feel like you are starting from zero the first few days). |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | wushupork: I learned "Kung Fu" mandarin when I trained with fresh off the boat professional martial artists who didn't speak a lick of English. The only way to communicate was for me to start learning mandarin.That said, I believe there's no better way to learn a language than to live in the country and not speak Engli... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | weaksauce: Has anyone had any experience with the Rosetta Stone learning packages? I want to learn Spanish but they seem pricey. It might be worth it if they are as good as they attest it is. |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | hernan7: I guess learning a language works different for different people. Me, I took English classes for several years, but what really got me over the hump was reading Guitar Player magazine. Since I like playing the guitar, reading the magazine was interesting to me. And it was written for native English speakers, s... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | zandorg: I was in the top set for Maths and English, but in 5th (eg, 5th worst out of 6) set for French. I just couldn't be bothered to practise memorising the words.The wierd thing is that I can remember foreign names with NO trouble. French names, Japanese (Masayoshi Son), etc. |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | pasbesoin: Lots of exposure. Hardly comprehensive, but a few tips:Destiños. A UIUC/public television teaching show with a running story.http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.htmlFind music in the language, with lyrics, that you like. When learning German and French, I listened to pop music that friends recommend... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | msbmsb: Immersion and Usage.Any opportunity to be surrounded by the language, and especially when you are forced to use it, will greatly increase your fluency. Not being too concerned about making mistakes and just speaking as much as you can is also important. Immersion and free usage after a base of grammar/vocab stu... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | p_h: I found this to be a pretty practical guide, written by a programmer:http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/29/15258/287 |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | saturdayplace: Immersion. I learned Hungarian living in Hungary. I had a two month crash course beforehand.Also, keep using it. Learned languages are like muscles, use them or they get weaker. I've lost a gripload of vocabulary because I haven't been forcing myself to use the language.*edit - My username, 'saturday... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | buckwild: If you are able:(1) Watch Spanish TV/Movies
(2) Talk in Spanish to Spanish-speaking people (use appropriately)
(3) Learn the easy small words first
(4) Immediately apply and integrate what you learn with what you already know.Note: The Spanish I learned in high school was enough for me to be able to speak and... |
Seeking Comments: Holy Grail of Software | icey: Charles Simonyi (the guy that caused us all to use Hungarian Notation in the 90s) seems to think it's a big deal:http://www.intentsoft.com/Martin Fowler on the subject: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntentionalSoftware.htmlAnd a wikipedia entry on the concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programmingI... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | alanthonyc: I took an introductory linguistics class earlier this year. One week was focused on language acquisition, you may be interested in reading the discussion (posted on my linguistics blog: http://linguistics.alanthony.com/2009/03/why-doesnt-it-work/).In summary: just taking a class won't help. You need to pr... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | jaytee_clone: Live in a native speaking country is still by far the most effective way of learning a language. |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | sharpn: I'm learning Spanish at the moment, purely using Michel Thomas's course CDs, and going to Spain for a week every few months. I guess going to Mexico as often as possible would be the US equivalent (I'm in the UK). The CDs are available free in libraries here, so you can rip them for free onto an mp3 player & li... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | nrr: I took seven semesters of German in high school and managed to skip everything but one 300-level grammar course at university, but I appear more to be the statistical anomaly than the rule. I'm fluent when discussing matters that are mostly mathematics and physics, but I find myself tripping on several everyday t... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | bgnm2000: http://www.langolab.com is a good resource |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | peterbraden: Live there. Most people I've talked to suggest that a year is enough to become fairly fluent. Also, you'll need to socialise when you're there - going to another country and hanging out with ex-pats is a sure way to not learn anything.Although a grounding in the language from a course is good, until you ar... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | chaosprophet: Well if you really want to learn a new language, I suggest you start thinking in that language. That's how I achieved my English fluency (and English is indeed a foreign language to me). |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | niv: I'm a native spanish speaker. To learn english I followed these basic steps:1. Learn basic grammar and vocabulary.
2. Read. Read a lot.
3. Listen to movies and songs and pick up pronunciation.
4. Keep on reading!
5. Now you know quite a bit! |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | dylanz: What if you're married to an English speaker already, and you can't leave the country (tons of kids and a job)?Immersion is obviously ideal, but not always practical. Then, you're left with finding friends who speak the language, college courses, movies, etc.Any other ideas? |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | rsayers: I moved to Curacao. Picked up papiamentu (local creole language), Spanish, and a little dutch (The official state langauge) pretty quick.That is hardly practical for most people though. Take the classes, but supplement that learning. Watch Spanish language films with and without subtitles. Watch movies you... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | soc: I'm about 8 months in on learning Japanese. I pretty much follow the method of alljapaneseallthetime(.com). Learning grammer, kanji, and set sentences. An SRS program like anki helps a lot with these. Then just immerse yourself (tv, music, books, games). Couple of helpful sites out there too (smart.fm, japanese... |
anyone else watching with horror/fascination as reddit turns into /b/? | alaskamiller: It's really just the same people browsing both sites. I'll bet you, it's the same people browsing this site as well. |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | dustineichler: I've been using http://www.livemocha.com/ |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | maw: I became good friends with a guy who worked in our company's Mexico City office. A few years later, I decided to take the plunge and move to Mexico City myself. It didn't hurt that the girls I chased (including the one I eventually married) didn't speak much English.I've now been here five years, and my Spanish is... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | pavelludiq: When i was 6 years old, i watched a lot of cartoons and learned a few English words. My parents were impressed and they sent me to English lessons. After that i studied it in school, and its been 13 years now and I'm confident in my knowledge, although i have horrible spelling(because i learned it by listen... |
How do you record your thoughts? | queensnake: I get a lot of ideas when I'm in the car or otherwise don't have a piece of paper handy, and unfortunately they slip away too easily. I haven't gotten one yet but, I'm thinking that a Sansa Clip with voice recording (~$40, different models) on my keychain might work (hmm, might need a lanyard). Many times I... |
Looking for feedback/recommendations - Hoot.com | noodle: interesting concept, but i don't know how interested i'd personally be in it until it starts to pick up on trends.like, it sees what i hoot and compares me to other people's hoots and suggests things for me to look at based on how i hoot.i'd think that this is where the power would be, not to just see what gets... |
Looking for feedback/recommendations - Hoot.com | dcbrandao: Requiring a user to type in a zip code for the registration is awkward when all that is required is a country (and zip codes only apply to the united states).I like how it find matches for products that have already been entered when you submit a new one, but it seems that only the first submission will set ... |
anyone else watching with horror/fascination as reddit turns into /b/? | toki: No, i like reddit as it is! I love that reddit is a living organism. I think that the 4chan-jokes are just a trend like the Ron-Paul-Posts some months ago...A long time i was sceptical that the system with the sub-reddits is really useful, but now i am convinced that it is a great invention: It allows reddit to d... |
How do you record your thoughts? | TrevorJ: I use Gmail.I set up a second account which forwards to the first and gets sorted into it's own inbox using Gmail's multi-inbox feature.This way, I simply email myself anytime I want to remember something for later.there are a number of reasons this works well:-Email is a common interface and I'll see it daily... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | jacquesm: I'm using jemalloc in places where we ran in to trouble with the regular malloc.It's been a long long time since I rolled my own, so I don't think I'm qualified to answer the rest of your questions except for the second, linked list of pointers of free(d) memory would be the best choice I think, with as an ex... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | dgulledge: Your motivation to learn the language will be a strong factor in your success. Wanting specifically to communicate in the language is a big plus.Get as much contents as you can and use it. Since you are studying Spanish, if you have access to a Spanish language cable network (or a broadcast TV or radio sta... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | gorbachev: I learned English by playing video games. Back in the day they didn't localize the games or the manuals, so I had to read them in English. |
What do you hate using but are forced to use? | paulbaumgart: Xilinx ISE. Admittedly I only used it for a college course ~1.5 years ago, and then only whatever version they made freely downloadable, but it was ridiculously buggy and user-unfriendly compared to any other development tool I've tried. |
How do you record your thoughts? | Fastmem: I use CintaNotes (http://cintanotes.com). It's really well suited for quick saving and finding little bits of information. Hot keys are highly configurable too, so that you can use Win key for example. |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | scott_s: Mine: http://www.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/streamflowWe allocated fixed size chunks of N objects, although we didn't have a smooth function for what the chunk size was. The inflection points where we changed our strategy were cache-line size and page size.Used/free record keeping was a simple table to map an address... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | jey: It really depends on the application. I just use the default system allocator until it's inadequate for some task, and then I switch to an allocation scheme or heap allocator that's well-suited for that problem.Can you tell us more about your specific problem? Then we'd be able to give suggestions and help evaluat... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | tptacek: I have two go-to solutions for malloc. In order of preference:I use arena allocators when I can get away with it. Arenas are absolutely trivial to code; there's no per-object "free", so allocation is just a pointer bump. You will be surprised at how often you can get away with this; lots of allocation-heavy co... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | electronslave: I was raised in Austria, and German was our home language. More than full immersion, it trained me to have an accent.That said, the best (not really fastest, persay) way to learn language is between the sheets. You learn SO much better when you're intimate and motivated.Which is how I learned French wh... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | ori_b: Slab Allocators, as described by Bonwick (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4...) if I'm allocating lots of same-size objects. Other than that, I mainly stick to the system malloc(), or something specifically optimized for the task at hand. |
Looking for feedback/recommendations - Hoot.com | anigbrowl: What's the point? Am I going to win any of these items, or earn a discount? Or is this the internet equivalent of window shopping? Seems like a complete waste of time to me. Sorry :-/edit: it's the window-shopping that I don't get. The implementation of the idea looks great, I just fail to understand why any... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | spot: tcmalloc: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
http://mituzas.lt/2006/12/06/google-perftools-tcmalloc-squid... |
How do you make money on a non-viral iPhone app? | jzdziarski: I have several applications in the AppStore. Among them is a ballistics calculator that caters to only a small group of people. I've found that the same basic rules apply to the AppStore, that apply elsewhere in life: work hard, design a quality product, and support it... you'll make good money. Word of mou... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | kvs: My recent allocator design is an attempt to address memory fragmentation in Windows XP & Vista. The unique problem I faced was that there was significant amount of code already in place which used C++ new/delete (about 300KLOC) and lot of coding is ongoing at breakneck speed. The allocator is written in C++.My sto... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | Locke1689: I usually just use the standard GCC implementation. I remember implementing a pretty quick red-black tree version for my systems class. It got me an A, but I don't think I'd use it unless I find myself having serious problems with GCC. |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | adamt: At various times I've profiled some CPU bound code and thought malloc is taking too much time. This has led me to read up on, and try and develop various usage-optimised allocators. The one lesson I've learnt is that in most cases the standard libc allocator is actually extremely good.Where I have had big advan... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | iterationx: I asked a guy who spoke 7 languages the same question, and he stressed reading above any other exercise. Sure at first you won't understand very much and you'll have to use a dictionary a lot, but its like a puzzle that gets easier. |
small fish v. big fish - exclusivity contract? | Travis: Get a good lawyer.Really it boils down to this: can you build and market the product without their assistance? Will you find angel / seed / VC funding on your own? Can you bootstrap?If those answers are yes, I'd say do it on your own. If they are no, your "decision" is already made for you, really.Be careful... |
small fish v. big fish - exclusivity contract? | grellas: Main concerns:Guard your IP - watch out for open-ended "due diligence" requests or anything else that might leave your IP vulnerable to a predatory partner.Guard your funding options - if they invest as part of the deal, don't give them veto rights over future funding.Guard your competitive turf - any "partner... |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | lacker: At Google we use tcmalloc which is now open sourced.A paper about it:http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.htmlThe code:http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/ |
small fish v. big fish - exclusivity contract? | alain94040: Watch out: exclusivity is a strong word. When you say they may become their first client, you really mean that they are guaranteed to become your only client.What if they don't follow-through and lose interest in your product? What happens to the exclusivity then? |
What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc? | dejb: For me the best malloc for me is one I don't have to know anything about - whatever is built in to the scripting language I happen to be using. But I know you aren't playing around with memory allocation for the sheer geekery of it. There are still some problems that can't be solved efficiently with higher level ... |
What does your startup's name mean? | ujjwalg: Our startup has a name which has nothing to do with what we are doing. Everyone we tell the name says its a cool name. There is a funny story behind the name but at this point we dont go out telling the story to everyone. When someone asks why, we simply say its cool and we like it. |
How do you make money on a non-viral iPhone app? | ujjwalg: My personal experience is very similar to what jzdziarski mentioned. Make a good quality app and support it, you will make money on it. Dont invest money on marketing, I have heard horror stories about it, unless you are someone like EA, amazon or target.There are a few dirty tricks that I have noticed being c... |
What does your startup's name mean? | joeld42: It would be good if you can find some meaning -- any similar word with positive connotations will do. People have a need to attach meaning to words, it will help it stick.If you can't, say it came to you in a dream.Never admit it was because the .com was available. |
What does your startup's name mean? | pedalpete: You'd be amazed how few people can figure out what your name means and why .I named my first company ZiFiMusic because it was a online radio play, and it sounded kinda like HiFi & WiFi (this was years ago when lots of people were just equating WiFi with internet).
Of the few people who ever heard of it, a h... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | JimmyL: Practice. Do some learning, and then practice again.You're already at a disadvantage since you're not seven years old (five to seven is the best age to learn a language, according to linguists), so you're gonna need to make up some ground. Aside from picking a learning program to pick up vocabulary, you need to... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | bcelik: I kind of grew up with English, it started early on, and went on throughout education. Still, a subsequent period of translating and reading creative texts (literature, songwriters' lyrics) made the leap, making me really comfortable "in" the language and its culture, and enjoy its beauties.To get fluent in a n... |
Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? | wooby: I wish! Another progressive computing project I'm aware of in the same vein was Japan's "Fifth Generation Computer" initiative, which bore, among other things, a concurrent dialect of Prolog called KL0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer |
Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? | TriinT: I never worked with Connection Machines, but I am also interested in them. If you haven't yet done so (which is unlikely), do take a look at Danny Hillis' PhD thesis:http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5679 |
Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? | stevedekorte: I did some FORTRAN 90 programming on a CM2 in the early 90s. FORTRAN 90 had a nice parallel array/matrix op syntax that mapped well to the CM2 but I actually ended up doing most of my work on a IBM RISC workstation because interactive access to small CPU was much more productive than waiting for a batch j... |
What is the best virtual filesystem library you have used? | ilyak: KIO, of course
file:// with zip://
http:// is so good that it's used by Konqueror; imap:// and pop3:// if you want them.
fish:// for file transfer over SSH (think scp)
smb:/ for windows network browsing. |
Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? | bitdiddle: I worked on the Slymbolics 1200, as we called it affectionately, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics) in the late 80s. It was absolutely the best experience I've ever had programming. I still own shares in Symbolics. Had I known what was happening with RMS at that time and had been politically conscious ... |
small fish v. big fish - exclusivity contract? | cjg: See if you can get them to agree a list of competitors they don't want you to sell to rather than just a blanket exclusivity. Try to add a regular review clause to allow this list to be reduced over time. |
Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? | srveit: I didn't work with these, but did work on the Symbolics 3600 circa 1985. It introduced me to a lot of new technology. I learned Lisp, of course, on it. I learned Zmacs and the "Meta" key. Emacs is still my favorite editor/IDE. We had a Canon laser printer ($12K, 360 DPI, liquid toner) that I used to print a pro... |
What is the best virtual filesystem library you have used? | wynand: There was a comment here about TCL's VFS, which the author removed. I thought it was an excellent pointer, since TCL's system seems very cool. His link was: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sc12.html?... |
How did you really learn a foreign language? | kuzux: I'm pretty sure it' too late for this advice but starating at a young age(in my case, 7) surely helps |
How do you record your thoughts? | bhseo: I like Wikidpad. http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/ |
Please advise me on liability insurance and on finding a lawyer | jacquesm: You're a busy bee :)An LLC is not ironclad but enough for most needs, you are getting in to an income range where a full 'inc' is probably smart (tax wise too!).Talk to a lawyer, but don't be too worried about the insurance unless you are really exposing yourself to a specific liability (such as being respons... |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | tocomment: Write a whole novel in bullet points. Release one page per day in a blog format.Or how about a twitter account where each status update says what's happening now to the main character? |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | ivankirigin: Tim OReilly's twitter book is like a slide deck. It's also not really writing. |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | mbrubeck: Write it as a screenplay; film it as a series of 45-minute episodes.The same people who don't read long books will often watch ten- or twenty-hour seasons of a television show. |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | vaksel: Use very short chapters. If a person only needs to spend 10 mins to advance to the next chapter, they are more likely to complete the book. |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | tokenadult: How would you write a novel for people who rarely read books cover to cover?Just like the author of the Twilight series.http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Saga-Collection-Stephenie-Mey...That is, if I could hold my nose that long to get through the manuscript. |
What to do you think about Metaki? | nico: This is a friend's project. It's a mixture of Twitter/Facebook/Loopt/Google Maps. Looks really interesting, and I'd like to get the feedback of the HN community. Thanks! |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | tom_b: This is a weird goal. I would guess your best shot would be making each chapter of the book short enough to be read in a short period of time and (more importantly) an independent story capable of standing on its own. How you balance that independence with a flowing story in a novel is a hard question. |
Which companies or startups in SF give tours of their offices? | SwellJoe: If you're driving, I'd recommend a brief detour to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. It's just off 101, next to Microsoft and Google. On the weekend you can see a Babbage engine run, and on the first and third Saturday of the month a PDP-1 fully restored and running Space War (and the docents do... |
edit history for HN comments? | icey: On one hand, I hate the fact that comments can be edited after they're replied to, because the whole context can be changed.On the other hand, I'll often edit comments rapidfire for about 45 seconds to a minute after I submit to clarify or clean up grammar. It would kill me if the remnants of my sloppy editing we... |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | ggchappell: This is an interesting question, but I am not sure about some of the assumptions behind it.Consider how I do things: the net has indeed made me impatient, in many contexts. When I read an HN post, I usually give it at most a paragraph or so to convince me it's worth finishing. If I'm not convinced by then, ... |
edit history for HN comments? | colins_pride: Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to be able to edit a comment that has a reply |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | MaysonL: Serialized. One chapter/scene per post. RSS feed mandatory. |
Which companies or startups in SF give tours of their offices? | earl: Um, who are you, what are you doing, and why do you want to see a startup office?Here's pics of one of them:
http://blog.earlh.com/index.php/2009/07/building-a-zip-line-... |
edit history for HN comments? | jacquesm: I'll edit comments to clarify as long as there are no replies to it, and I'll edit them for grammar / typos after that. Any additions after replies have been added get marked with an 'EDIT' as seems to be common practice here.English being my second language I just about always find a way to put my foot i my ... |
edit history for HN comments? | tokenadult: This too should probably go in the feature requests thread.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363That said, I silently make little edits for typos or expansions with more outlinks to add content to my post. If I think I'm making a new point, or refining a first point, I try to remember to postAFTER EDIT:be... |
Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine? | cema: I did some work with CM in early 1990s. Parallel programming ("fundamental algorithms") was based on using a special version of C language (C*) with a bit of parallel syntax. (Other groups worked on parallel compilers which could support automatic parallelization of Fortran programs.) As usual, the real trick was... |
my first open src. how do I choose a license? | paulgb: Here's a list of OSI approved licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabeticalIf you just want to slap a license on it and be done with it, my favorite is zlib/libpng License. It's short and to the point, without legal BS. For a larger project with many contributers, it makes sense to look into BSD vs.... |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | iterationx: I'd analyze Michael Crichton's work, and extrapolate the answer. |
How would you write novels for people who rarely read entire books? | billswift: Writing a STORY in anything less than chapter length segments wouldn't work very well - there has to be enough content and context for the reader to get into the story. And for that matter, the average length of published fiction has been growing for decades, many, maybe most novels now are as long as the e... |
my first open src. how do I choose a license? | SwellJoe: It's a library. I generally prefer LGPL or a BSD-like for those cases. It insures the largest number of people can use the code without having another license imposed on them. GPL is too restrictive for library usage, IMHO.You could, of course, dual (or triple or quadruple) license the code if you like. Y... |
What is your favorite board game and why? | seasoup: Go. Another very simple game that takes forever to master, and yet the rules can be tought in under a minute. It's also so complicated that the Go players of today are far better then the Go masters of 1000 or even 500 years ago because of all the strategy in the game that has been discovered and passed on. ... |
What is your favorite board game and why? | kleevr: I've played both a little Reversi/Othello and Go. If you haven't tried Go I'd give it a shot. It is good to start by playing a little against a computer (and don't feel bad about using a handicap) until you the basics click. Then find other humans I guess...[I always had trouble with chess, my "ADD" always g... |
What is your favorite board game and why? | rms: I like www.kdice.com. It's a distillation of the best elements of Risk down to the most minimal essentials. You'd have to be crazy to try playing it on an actual board though. I believe it is the largest public installation of Google Web Toolkit. I'm kevin143 there if you want to play sometime. It is not an easy g... |
Best word to describe this process? | CraigBuchek: Sounds like you're choosing the "cream of the crop".From what others wrote, I like "select", "cherry-picking", and "blessed". I don't like "filter", "screen", or "cull", because they imply getting rid of (bad) stuff; you probably want to concentrate on the good stuff.What qualities are you wanting to measu... |
What is your favorite board game and why? | SwellJoe: Some friends and I played Settlers of Catan for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's a lot of fun. Definitely recommended.I'm also very fond of Scrabble. Like others have mentioned, Othello and Go can be fun. |
Your Real Life Notebook Tricks/Tips | dryicerx: I'll start.Type: I always use sketch pads meant for pencil drawings with thick paper, no rules or lines. I can sketch and do what ever without distraction. Great for brainstorming/design/flowcharts/etc.Organization: Many books {Personal, Project1, Project2, ...} Then in each book, any bizarre unfit ideas I wr... |
Your Real Life Notebook Tricks/Tips | Oompa: I just have an empty notebook shell filled with loose leaf paper. I never have to tear out pages, and, somehow, I never lose anything either. |
Your Real Life Notebook Tricks/Tips | cmos: I've been keeping an active design book for the last 3 years. I buy the largest spiral bound artists sketch pad from the local art store that fits in my backpack (usually $16-$19). I go through one a year. The notebook is for ideas, concepts and stories. Day to day notes are done elsewhere.Opening the noteboo... |
Your Real Life Notebook Tricks/Tips | colbyolson: Keeping one near the bed and unloading before I go to sleep.Eg: things to do the next day, last minute ideas, thoughts, poems |
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