Okay.
New job, big corporate employer.
Company laptop, no way to install new apps due to corporate policy… and budget.
I’ve got what appears to be the entire Microsoft Office suite.
I’ve also got strict policies to follow preventing me from putting corporate data on any non-corporate assets… so Google Docs or outside web services are right out.
I make paper notes during the course of my working day in a pocket-sized composition book and want to transcribe them so I can have good records of what I do.
I would rather NOT make a folder for MS Word docs and then make a new word doc for each day. In a perfect world, I’d used something like Evernote, but that’s not viable due to policy.
Please suggest a method of getting this done.
MS OneNote.
OneNote. It was designed for just that sort of thing (and it’s my favorite bit of Office software because it’s so good at it.)
Start a Notebook called “Journal” - I think there’s even an example one to get you started. Then can have sections by month with individual pages for the days. Or you can have one section for the whole year and use pages for the months, with all your entries on one page. However you want to do it is up to you.
You can flag your notes to find them again easily. It also includes voice notes, if you like that. You can easily add graphics and screenshots. It’s got pen modules if you’re using a tablet and want handwriting recognition.
If you store your notebook online, you can access it from the Office web apps - but I don’t know if that will meet your corporate policy.
You can password protect your notebooks, but for heaven’s sake write that password down somewhere.
Consider whether you want your diary to be in some place where you will always have access to it, even if you are no longer employed at this company.
To be clear, this is a work diary.
If I get fired I don’t need any of the information I’ll be logging. They can have it.
You may also want to consider whether you want your diary to be somewhere where your company has access to it. It’s not usually a problem, but it is something to keep in mind.
Otherwise, yes, OneNote is the way to go. People at the company I work at it are finding it useful to make notes during meetings.
Probably should have called it “daily log” or “journal” rather than diary.
My apologies for being wholly unclear.
And… OneNote has it.
Thanks all!