I've been balancing
[2022-12-08 03:55:36 PM] : I've been balancing doing Safari / painstorming and going through course content, and I'm finding myself in a state where it's hard to keep track of notes and learnings.
I wondered if making a list of "audience pains" would make sense, and that got me thinking:
What do you guys do to keep track of your safari data, specific to your audience?
Do you keep one "file" per safari, as was instructed in one of the early lessons? Do you keep separate files for pains, worldviews, jargon, recommendations? Do you do a combination, where you have one "file" per safari, but a collective list of pains etc.?
Perhaps I chose a poor set of tooling but so far, I've just kept my Safari data in a separate notes in the MacOS Notes app.
That means I have quite a few files to browse up and down at this point, with no clear separation between course notes and safari learnings. Easily fixed, just got me curious about how you you go about it! :smile:
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[2022-12-08 05:53:58 PM] : I use Evernote and make individual pages for each watering hole. And then later when I’m analyzing everything I’ll create a new page for that.
[2022-12-12 06:19:22 PM] : My approach is pretty simple. I have a folder full of text files. Each file represents a single safari session for a given URL. I have a naming convention so I can see the name of the watering hole in the filename, and the date. When it comes time to analyse things, I can open it up with a good text editor (e.g. VS Code) and search for keywords and themes. Though mostly I scan through each file one-by-one and I can tell at a glance if it’s going to be relevant to what I’m exploring.
[2022-12-13 03:44:21 AM] : That sounds extremely useful, thank you jrsinclair!
Do you keep a separate document or list or anything to maintain an "overview"?
To give an example: What I often feel I'm missing when doing Safari is consistencies between safaries. Ie what are commonalities between post A, B, C etc.
So I thought about keeping a separate file/document/list for the "general learnings" I've made with an audience.
Do you do something like that?
[2022-12-13 04:35:59 AM] : I tend to go through and look for those things in a single session. Finding consistencies/themes is what the ‘bullets of gold’ part of the course is about. So I end up tracking that stuff, but not incrementally. Sometimes if you start tracking themes too early you end up biasing what you safari later.
[2022-12-13 07:54:22 AM] : Thanks for the input, much appreciated! I don't believe I've covered that section yet :pray: