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In your recent comment to Lorine McGinnis Schulze's column on remembering what you had written about, you said that you had an excel spreadsheet. I compile an electronic report for my local genealogy chapter and sometimes I know that I have reported on a certain subject. What, if I may ask, are the headings for your spreadsheet?
ReplyDeleteHowland Davis
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My Excel spreadsheet includes the following headings: Idea, Subject Name (Person or Persons), Main Location of Story, Title of Post, Status, Date Planned, Day of Week, Date Published, and Notes.
ReplyDeleteExcel allows me to sort these headings to look at a particular item, such as all the articles I wrote about a particular person or place. You could also insert headings for additional people mentioned in the story or works referenced. It can be as simple or complex as you prefer.
What I like about this is that it gives me a framework for planning upcoming articles and shows me "holes" or information that I might forget if I just wrote them as I went along. It also gives me a sense of how long I will have to spend on a particular subject.