Projecting…

I find that the nature of work is thus: come up with something that needs to be done (or have something presented to you) begin work on it and then either hit a road block or be called away. Hopefully, at some point, you complete each thing and move on, only to have the need for the same task come up again later at a pin to at which you no longer recall the method you originally ended up using to complete it.

Over the years, I have tried many themes to keep track of everything, onenote, asana, notebooks, some other websites I don’t recall… none of which have really kept all the pieces together in a way that worked for me.

Currently, I have some stuff in onenote, some stuff in my spiceworks knowledgebase, but recently I have been trying to move to a WordPress knowledge base and a locally installed version of OrangeScrum to track tasks… and, of course, the traditional “multiple paper notebooks”. Since a lot of what I do involves figuring out SQL queries, excel, and moving between the two, this leads to an extensive collection of queries and worksheets in varying degrees of completion and/or usefulness. Also, many of the solutions also exist on websites and the vendors own help files. Of course, all of that has led to a lot of digging around to refind things, and checking to see if the resource located is the version that ended up working or not.

What this leads to is a morass of information, misinformation, leads, and misleads, files and folders, etc etc. I am still searching for that perfect solution… not cloud based, locally hosted preferred, open source also preferred. Is there something perfect I haven’t stumbled on yet? Something I already have that I’m just not using effectively?

Unfortunately, I can’t even picture what the solution would look like. I just want, if something comes up that I’ve done before (or if re-entering an un-finished project), to be able to get right to where I need to be and see the reverent information, whether it’s documentation, code, excel, or whatever. Tagged accurately to make organization sense.