Date:         Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:04:26 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday Philosophy: On Documentation
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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An excellent 'app' is Excel Spreadsheets..
U can keep track of endless things ..
highlight areas in color,
add up numbers ....very, very handy.
I do one for every major project ..
the Repair Operations, the Parts, the 'things not addressed yet.'  etc.

You can add and erase or re-organize all day long on them .
It can go on a flash drive too .


On 2/8/2013 5:05 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>    I 'try' to use the back blank 'notes' pages you will find in most
> workshop manuals to document any changes I make to my vehicles.   I also
> like to put my tire pressure adjustments, my suspension settings, the best
> alignment settings I find, etc....all back in the last few blank pages they
> put into most shop manuals.
>
>     Since I began learning Smart Phones I now suspect there may be an "app"
> that would make documenting all this stuff 'easier' somehow.   Evernote, an
> app in Android systems..., that has become a tool I use more and more for
> my carpentry work....
> If I had time to really learn all of it's functions completely, I suspect
> it could be used to track and document Vanagon mechanicals, too.   It takes
> pics, notes, writes stuff almost correctly when you speak into it, you can
> draw with it, all kinds of useful stuff....You could probably put
> everything (including the shop manual) on a small flash drive, about the
> size of a fat postage stamp, and when you needed something, just slip it
> into some device and get the information back, with photos and sound and
> video....
>     But for now, I still use a Ticonderoga #2 lead pencil and my workshop
> manuals....seems to work for me.
>
>