I am involved in what could loosely be called "Project Work". What is usually best overall is when I come in on a project at the inception, so I have a background understanding of what the client wants, and I get to listen to the senior engineers go about determining how we will satisfy those needs.

Unfortunately, what often happens is I come in at a later stage of the project, so I am on the receiving end of the result of project stumbling blocks, disagreements, determinations made due to weather, illness, product unavailability, etc.

I used to use monthly booklets to log things like important meeting notes, decisions, mileposts achieved, telephone numbers, accidents, critical expenses, but now I'm putting them into a Word document. It's too easy to misplace a booklet, and besides, as the document gets longer, it becomes easier to do a computer search for items I'm curious about later.

Among the assemblage of workers in our Forum are there others who have developed a well-organized methodology for keeping track of things happening, found a neat piece of software, or otherwise have something to contribute?

Thanks,

Robo