Book Workflow
I’ve had some movement on how I want to approach my workflow for the book. It’ll look like this:
- Brain dump all of the sub-projects for the book onto 3×5 cards.
- Choose a sub-project to work on.
- Create a new folder with the sub-project title in the @Book folder
- Create a readme.txt file in the sub-project folder. You can leave any specific notes you have about the sub-project here (scaling settings in Illustrator, for example).
The sub-project will more than likely require several next actions, so…
- Staple the 3×5 card to a piece of lined notebook paper. Work thru the next actions on this piece of paper.
- Take the next action you have on your list
Some of the next actions might actually be another sub-project in themselves. If so, bump the sub-project over to a it’s own separate 3×5 card.
Other things to consider:
- Keep all of your associated Sibelius and .eps documents in the same project folder
- Don’t slack on naming things. Be specific, either in the way you label the folder, or the way you label the file. This will keep you from redoing work that you don’t need to.
- Don’t be slack in setting up templates. A well set-up template in the beginning will make things go much faster when it comes to repeating tasks.
I think that this should cover alot of the oranizational problems that I’ve had in the past that have led to duplication of work. It should also break things into manageable chunks. It just occurred to me that this is what I’m asking my students to do when I have them break down a song for practicing: “Why practice 50 things when you can practice the 5 things that will help you play the 50?”. I think that I can repurpose this into how I work on the book… just have to think through the possible connection a bit more.