In my work I often have to troll through long lists of pages of material looking for patterns and noting significant trends. I largely don’t like doing this, as it often requires switching back and forth between the document I am reading and the one I am taking notes on and something about that bugs me.
Today though, I am working on a report and I inadvertently discovered a hack. I started entering notes at the top of the document, but as I paged through, I noticed that my notes were appearing on every page. I had accidently been typing them in a header window which repeated over every page. This was very cool! As I read each page, I just kept adding notes to the header window without ever having to scroll back to the top or go to another window. When I finsihed, I just copied the text to a new document and started writing my summary report.
Thought I would share this little hack. I never thought about using repeating elements in a Word or OpenOffice document like that before.
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Intriguing beauties:
- Jeff Altman has digitized his grandfather’s home movies: San Francisco, 1958.
- Johnnie Moore on social creativity.
- Metafilter post on the WKBW Buffalo 1968 War of the Worlds scare. Great stuff to curl up with this Hallowe’en!
- The New Scientist maps how small and connected our world has become.
- Geoff Brown with some fun=behaviour change videos. Going to be fun working with him on this!
- Rob Paterson blogs about KETC’s approach to the flu: a new model for conversational leadership in news.
- Alex Kjerulf bounces into the weekend.
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Finding What You Didn’t Lose
When someone deeply listens to you
it is like holding out a dented cup
you’ve had since childhood
and watching it fill up with
cold, fresh water.
When it balances on top of the brim,
you are understood.
When it overflows and touches your skin,
you are loved.
When someone deeply listens to you,
the room where you stay
starts a new life
and the place where you wrote
your first poem
begins to glow in your mind’s eye.
It is as if gold has been discovered!
When someone deeply listens to you,
your bare feet are on the earth
and a beloved land that seemed distant
is now at home within you.
~ John Fox ~
via Finding What You Didn’t Lose – John Fox.
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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.”
Noam Chomsky