Sort of a “reverse” Q&A thread about the design notebook. I’m a second-year notebooker, and my school isn’t known for great notebooks, except maybe on one occasion in the past. I’ve been told that my book is “promising”, and I have learned a lot, both in person and from here. It’s far from perfect, and I’m not even sure if it is worthy of a States qualification (Ohio, USA) and probably not a Worlds qualification in itself. However, I have many tips and have gotten many tips. Hear me out on this, COMMUNITY THREAD. I’m not sure if there’s a specific way to do this, but I’d love to have a thing where people comment and respond to get tips, give tips, and suggest things to other people.
What are your best notebook tips, ideas, and examples? I’ll post (reply) some of mine soon.
For me at least, I find it inevitable that I end up falling behind on entries. If you’re like me, taking the time each meeting to write down some quick notes so you can come back to them later when you’re catching up helps me make sure my notebook is accurate and (somewhat) good.
Also, pictures, CADs, and diagrams are so, so useful.
I think the recommended and simplest kind is Google Slides - I personally have a physical notebook, but am slowly translating/transitioning to a digital which will probably be in Slides.
I personally use Microsoft Word to edit my notebook instead of PowerPoint (Google is not readily available where I live). The formatting that makes Microsoft Word suitable for the engineering notebook takes quite some time to learn, but I’ve gotten used to using this.
