This is not about "me" ..I am just abstractly interested in how people "work" in an office/computer/paper/internet/ environment.
However, I'll start with me because..... of how things have so STRANGELY ended up.... especially after watching Castle and Bones t.v. episodes intensely about how the producers "think" people might work.
To put it in a nutshell, they are big on "the whiteboard" and also "large screen computer monitors...like feet across".
a) because of the thread on living on the edge with NeonOS i now have a neon computer, although it could be Kubuntu with some tweakage...on my big screen t.v. and when I get up in the morning, making coffee etc. it loads Kontact and I can "stand and think" while drinking coffee etc. about the activities of the day/week/month, e-mail information, RSS feeds etc... --- Not having to "go and sit at the computer and stare at it" , and run around making breakfast, etc...has been a LIBERATING experience....
It has worked much better than my MyEebo tablet... I tried really hard with the thing and it "did" everything...buuuuttt...
Note: I use an "air mouse" and the associated wireless keyboard, but I do it standing.........I can wander over and look out the window...
It has been LIBERATING...
b) The "office"....
i) Because of my new high end machine, which does not work with a parallel printer, (as stated in another thread), I now have two monitors....the high end on a smaller but higher res flat screen in landscape mode, and an old Toshiba lappy dedicated to "rotated screen" and the former fllat screen monitor is now in portrait to do intensive text editing.
ii) Wordprocessor on Android and standard note proggy....I can talk to both of them, don't do very much at all with the keyboard, to do "on the fly" document stuff, and then either e-mail or use KDE connect to move them to a machine.
iii) Basketnotes.... it is good, and is IMPROVING, in terms of doing "small arrangements" of information etc. It would work very marvy if I had a true touch screen large screen television and also allow very large arrangements of information ....a - la.... Castle or Bones or CSI Miami....
iv) The "whiteboard"...I could not figure a way to easily get a painted pressed wood panel into the apartment and from the store, they work fine, I used one for years in my classroom when I taught high school.
So, I bought self sticking "paper to make a whiteboard" on some large pieces of cardboard and it very nicely attached with just three small nails in the sheetrock..
NOTE on this stuff..........always use FRESH whiteboard markers....I started with a very old one and the text is just STUCK on there...a new marker cleans easily..
However, I have REALLY been using it to diagram out, and write about, large projects.........it works, for me, very fine.
NOTES:...I started taking the text from the whiteboard to the computer by talking to the android.... However.........duuhhh, I also discovered....dumb woodsmoker.......that the wireless keyboard works fine ten feet away facing the whiteboard........now......... you have to TRUST your touch typing.....lol........ to actually be what you are typing...lol......but...
My workflow, in my present stage of life and work, has just become SO EASY........using the mixed array of the above.......
So...........back to the question.......
Can you do all of your work on the computer.........?
Do you mix and match in any way.....?
Particular pieces of software used "normally" or in a "different way"?
I think that folks would really like to know.........so that they might try YOUR ideas....
However, I'll start with me because..... of how things have so STRANGELY ended up.... especially after watching Castle and Bones t.v. episodes intensely about how the producers "think" people might work.
To put it in a nutshell, they are big on "the whiteboard" and also "large screen computer monitors...like feet across".
a) because of the thread on living on the edge with NeonOS i now have a neon computer, although it could be Kubuntu with some tweakage...on my big screen t.v. and when I get up in the morning, making coffee etc. it loads Kontact and I can "stand and think" while drinking coffee etc. about the activities of the day/week/month, e-mail information, RSS feeds etc... --- Not having to "go and sit at the computer and stare at it" , and run around making breakfast, etc...has been a LIBERATING experience....
It has worked much better than my MyEebo tablet... I tried really hard with the thing and it "did" everything...buuuuttt...
Note: I use an "air mouse" and the associated wireless keyboard, but I do it standing.........I can wander over and look out the window...
It has been LIBERATING...
b) The "office"....
i) Because of my new high end machine, which does not work with a parallel printer, (as stated in another thread), I now have two monitors....the high end on a smaller but higher res flat screen in landscape mode, and an old Toshiba lappy dedicated to "rotated screen" and the former fllat screen monitor is now in portrait to do intensive text editing.
ii) Wordprocessor on Android and standard note proggy....I can talk to both of them, don't do very much at all with the keyboard, to do "on the fly" document stuff, and then either e-mail or use KDE connect to move them to a machine.
iii) Basketnotes.... it is good, and is IMPROVING, in terms of doing "small arrangements" of information etc. It would work very marvy if I had a true touch screen large screen television and also allow very large arrangements of information ....a - la.... Castle or Bones or CSI Miami....
iv) The "whiteboard"...I could not figure a way to easily get a painted pressed wood panel into the apartment and from the store, they work fine, I used one for years in my classroom when I taught high school.
So, I bought self sticking "paper to make a whiteboard" on some large pieces of cardboard and it very nicely attached with just three small nails in the sheetrock..
NOTE on this stuff..........always use FRESH whiteboard markers....I started with a very old one and the text is just STUCK on there...a new marker cleans easily..
However, I have REALLY been using it to diagram out, and write about, large projects.........it works, for me, very fine.
NOTES:...I started taking the text from the whiteboard to the computer by talking to the android.... However.........duuhhh, I also discovered....dumb woodsmoker.......that the wireless keyboard works fine ten feet away facing the whiteboard........now......... you have to TRUST your touch typing.....lol........ to actually be what you are typing...lol......but...
My workflow, in my present stage of life and work, has just become SO EASY........using the mixed array of the above.......
So...........back to the question.......
Can you do all of your work on the computer.........?
Do you mix and match in any way.....?
Particular pieces of software used "normally" or in a "different way"?
I think that folks would really like to know.........so that they might try YOUR ideas....
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