If you sit and try to repair a camera or a lens almost every day, it can quickly happen that you forget details or assign them incorrectly in your memory.
At the end of the week, you will definitely only know a small part of what you spent your days doing at the table. Fatigue also contributes to this.
But that's the same with other activities that you devote yourself to intensively, and there are numerous ways to document projects.
Since I do most of my digital life on the iPhone, I use a notepad for notes on my repair projects, which is actually more of a database - if you use it in that direction.
Notebooks
allows you to create notes, with extensive formatting options if desired, which can be organized in „books“. Numerous sorting and export functions are available:
Overview of a part of my previous repair projects in 2023 in chronological order.
GREEN: successfully completed
RED: pending
VIOLET: dissection of a device
BROWN: repair failed
BLUE: report/essay
(more colors available)
Starting this year, I have set up a note system that records any errors (red), necessary steps to correct them (green) and the implementation (standard text color) with the date for each device:
Links to my reports here in the forum supplement the recordings.
If necessary you can also add
Photos
which I collect chronologically in my photo archive.
This is easy to do on the iPhone, which I also use as a camera for documenting my repair projects:
Since I have a good visual memory, I can easily find the photos associated with projects.
The execution date recorded in the notes helps when searching the photo archive.
Notes and photos bring the projects back to life.
And I can always check what the status is if I have new ideas about how this or that could be done differently.
Often the details of what worked where and why or not only become clear later through the high-resolution photos.
Conclusion
At the end of the week, you will definitely only know a small part of what you spent your days doing at the table. Fatigue also contributes to this.
But that's the same with other activities that you devote yourself to intensively, and there are numerous ways to document projects.
Since I do most of my digital life on the iPhone, I use a notepad for notes on my repair projects, which is actually more of a database - if you use it in that direction.
Notebooks
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Notebooks is the best word processing app for your work, from taking notes to writing books and organizing documents. Available on iOS and Mac.
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allows you to create notes, with extensive formatting options if desired, which can be organized in „books“. Numerous sorting and export functions are available:
Overview of a part of my previous repair projects in 2023 in chronological order.
GREEN: successfully completed
RED: pending
VIOLET: dissection of a device
BROWN: repair failed
BLUE: report/essay
(more colors available)
Starting this year, I have set up a note system that records any errors (red), necessary steps to correct them (green) and the implementation (standard text color) with the date for each device:
Links to my reports here in the forum supplement the recordings.
If necessary you can also add
Photos
which I collect chronologically in my photo archive.
This is easy to do on the iPhone, which I also use as a camera for documenting my repair projects:
Since I have a good visual memory, I can easily find the photos associated with projects.
The execution date recorded in the notes helps when searching the photo archive.
Notes and photos bring the projects back to life.
And I can always check what the status is if I have new ideas about how this or that could be done differently.
Often the details of what worked where and why or not only become clear later through the high-resolution photos.
Conclusion
- The system has proven itself and should continue to support me well in the years to come.
- At the end of a year, I export the collected reports as PDF and archive them on the PC.
- I only do a labor-intensive migration - i.e. transferring the data to another program - if the app is no longer supported. That's why I thought carefully about using notebooks which should be available for a long time.
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