tearoff at the top, using that gummy-style binding.The new sheet is on the left, and the old sheet is to the right. I had also wanted to do a little custom color mixing (sort of like doing a duotone or tritone in Photoshop), but I guess you can’t do this with Illustrator alone. There’s another advantage too: It’s now very easy to change the base colors, so if I want a blue sheet, I change one master definition and the tints will change. Using spot color in printing will give me sharper text and purer color over CMYK process color. I’m now using 4 spot colors with tints, in anticipation of going to offset press. Forget that! BE BOLD OR GO HOME! :-)Ĭonversion to Spot Color. ![]() On the latter: I had originally made the language more neutral, but then I realized that this was giving in to safe thinking. I’ve made several adjustments in spacing, and have reworded phrases to maintain that “concise-but-encouraging” attitude. There was a missing dot from the timebox grid, which was the one I used to create the new dot grid area. This will put the 30-minute blocks right next to the note area, so those larger timeboxes don’t get in the way visually and can be ignored. For now, I horizontally flipped the timeboxes so A is on the LEFT and E is on the RIGHT. Maybe a better-selling form, for all I know. It might be interesting to create a general version like this without the breaks, but that gets away from the estimating/tracking/blocking idea. Johannes made the comment that he doesn’t work in “4 hour shifts”, and would like to see a form that just had regularly-spaced blocks. ![]() One of the major things I’m trying to do with this form is to encourage pacing of the day, because I suspect this is important for overall energy management. I’ve put the whitespace back in, and have left it blank so people can write whatever they want in it.įlipped timebox for people who don’t like timeboxes. There used to be a week num / day of week indicator that I never used myself, so I took it out in the first draft. Time trackers, rejoice! I was particularly intrigued by Robert France’s use of the hour summary to indicate which tasks were billable.Īdded a memo area. Live and learn! I’ve made the following changes to address some of the comments raised yesterday: It’s funny that of all the forms I’ve designed, I originally thought this one was the least useful to a general audience. I’d originally designed the ETP to help me develop a better sense of available time and to provide daily focus. I was surprised that there are people using the form for billing and general time tracking. Wow!īut I digress…I’m pretty jazzed about the adjustments I’ve made to my developing product strategy. The reason it’s exciting rather than merely terrifying is because I’ve learned to embrace newness as something that’s unlikely to actually kill me, so why not? Also, yesterday I got a fortune cookie that said this: When you understand, you are not learning. Creating my own product is a bit different, and it’s rather exhilarating to be a noob again. I’ve worked on projects before that have been seen by lots of people, but generally the work has been in areas where I was already technically competent. I got my first real taste of this while going through all the great comments from yesterday’s post. ![]() Getting on the path-and that really means doing something and being accountable for the results-is much more interesting. When you’re not on the path, the opportunities and pitfalls that you imagine are really just abstractions or undefined fears. I think the reason is this: when you’re on the path, you can actually see what’s coming at you. While I knew that creating my own product was well within my grasp, I’m finding that walking the path is a lot different than just dreaming about it.
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