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[lquid_user]

Just wondering about the more organized people. Can anyone recommend a good journal or log book program? I have downloaded and tried a dozen or so.

I am looking for something that prompts me to input times and locations and corroboration etc. It is easy for me to leave out important details in a free-writing style journal. if there were one that was customizeable as far as menu arrangement and prompts that would be great.

So far I have been using Outlook Journal. The more I use outlook the more obvious what a powerful program it really is. I think it's great , I just want tsomething a little more detailed towards catalogging events.

I need for the facts to be straight and easily reviewed.

Any recommendations?

 

[BL]

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[casa]

Just wondering about the more organized people. Can anyone recommend a good journal or log book program? I have downloaded and tried a dozen or so.

I am looking for something that prompts me to input times and locations and corroboration etc. It is easy for me to leave out important details in a free-writing style journal. if there were one that was customizeable as far as menu arrangement and prompts that would be great.

So far I have been using Outlook Journal. The more I use outlook the more obvious what a powerful program it really is. I think it's great , I just want tsomething a little more detailed towards catalogging events.

I need for the facts to be straight and easily reviewed.

Any recommendations?

If you are referring to information related to child custody/visitation/support etc. I'd suggest www.deltabravo.net They have parenting time trackers and various ideas to compile information.

 

[BL]

Is it lunch time yet ?, my matinées are waiting ...

 

[lquid_user]

thanks

ok Blonde Lebinese.. Ask nick is useful but not for this .. I wil save my tech questions for this guy.

Casa.... also good info, I picked up the parenting time tracker and remembered why I don't get along with excel. Now may be a good time to brush up in this area, that sort of info may prove very worthwhile down the line.

Thanks for all the help

 

[Zephyr]

ok Blonde Lebinese.. Ask nick is useful but not for this .. I wil save my tech questions for this guy.

Casa.... also good info, I picked up the parenting time tracker and remembered why I don't get along with excel. Now may be a good time to brush up in this area, that sort of info may prove very worthwhile down the line.

Thanks for all the help

I currently use the time tracker that you found from delta bravo- I love it, all the math is done already, when I have free time I can fill in the "scheduled times" far in advance- then it is only a second or two to fill in actual times.

mileage, notes area, percentage of time etc. I really like it....um obviously

 

[jslopez711]

Just wondering about the more organized people. Can anyone recommend a good journal or log book program? I have downloaded and tried a dozen or so.

I am looking for something that prompts me to input times and locations and corroboration etc. It is easy for me to leave out important details in a free-writing style journal. if there were one that was customizeable as far as menu arrangement and prompts that would be great.

So far I have been using Outlook Journal. The more I use outlook the more obvious what a powerful program it really is. I think it's great , I just want tsomething a little more detailed towards catalogging events.

I need for the facts to be straight and easily reviewed.

Any recommendations?

Develop a router of sorts in Word. Then just add the page every time. A template if you will.

 

[lquid_user]

S.p.a.r.c.

I currently use the time tracker that you found from delta bravo- I love it, all the math is done already, when I have free time I can fill in the "scheduled times" far in advance- then it is only a second or two to fill in actual times.

mileage, notes area, percentage of time etc. I really like it....um obviously

It seems that this site really is a compendium.

Excel is a bit foreign, but the tracker certainly seems adequate. it's nice that you can fill in the past too. I've been writing everything down for months in a journal format. It will be sooooo much easier to deal with in a spreadsheet. I should've done this from the get-go. duh?

Thanks all
lquid

 

[lquid_user]

OH yeah.

Develop a router of sorts in Word. Then just add the page every time. A template if you will.

ok, please forgive me for overlooking the obvious. I've lived on a boathouse without electricity for awhile and forgot all about things like Word. I guess you can make a templaate for anything you want. just a form to "fill in the blanks". then even search all those document files and organize them by date or subject or whatever??
Thanks

 

[CJane]

I've lived on a boathouse without electricity for awhile

I thought mom lived on the boathouse.

 

[SITLYNNE]

I thought mom lived on the boathouse.

Me too. Isn't that his gripe?

 

[Mbarr77]

I just recently started using the time tracker found on www.deltabravo.net as well. It is called Optimal. Is extremely easy to use, and is very helpful in keeping track of all your important dates and information!

 

[lquid_user]

CJane Quote:
Originally Posted by lquid_user
I've lived on a boathouse without electricity for awhile


I thought mom lived on the boathouse.

I did too, temporarily. It had running water...........underneath!

SITLYNNE Quote:
Originally Posted by CJane
I thought mom lived on the boathouse.


Me too. Isn't that his gripe?

It is, among many.


MarieNoelle I just recently started using the time tracker found on www.deltabravo.net as well. It is called Optimal. Is extremely easy to use, and is very helpful in keeping track of all your important dates and information!

Thanks, was wondering if that was really all it is cracked up to be. I just hesitate at anything that soundds too trumped up. there seemed to be alot of claims about it.

 

[MomIsWorried]

Thanks, was wondering if that was really all it is cracked up to be.

The parental time tracker is free, but Optimal costs. Parental time tracker is wonderful. Hubby and I used it both when his ex-wife had custody and denied visitation, and when he was awarded custody and she skipped out of visitation/child support. We loved it, and the Magistrate and Judge loved it, too. They found all of our documentation easy to read and understand. I can't say enough good things about the time tracker.

 

[trustknow1]

I am about as organized as you can be in life without being labeled as obsessive-compulsive..lol.

I've used delta-bravo and other excellent creations designed for the task. They are very impressive and make you feel totally on top of the game........if your brain functions mesh well with computer entry. Unfortunately, mine does not. It was like doing my taxes every day instead of once a year.
Jotting down notes, then going to the program every day and entering them took me forever. Looking at the big picture spreadsheet was like subjecting myself to a daily torture session always ending with a bad mood to shake off.

So I used the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) technique I have used my whole life. A $24 (page-a-day) daytimer that I enter every notable event in for each day. I use a highlighter color system to catagorize each entry for easy sorting into various lists I may need at any time to document an issue.

Yellow = child expense
Red = support paid
Green = unscheduled additional time with daughter
Blue = significant issue regarding ex
* = documented evidence (email,letter,tape of call,etc)
of event in files

I enter a quick summary of any event I want to remember during each day....highlight it...and a couple minutes later, I am on my way with my optomistic attitude still intact. I usually transfer the info into a version similar to one of those big picture spreadsheets at the end of each year.

It also provides me with immediate access to all the factual info I may need for an entire year at all times, to confidently discuss any unexpected calls at any time from my ex, etc.

I file each completed daytimer for previous years in a file cabinet sitting right behind the chair I am sitting in. Total space required for the last 10 years is less than 12" inches total. It takes me about 20 seconds to locate and recap any issue my ex may be claiming never happened when I am required to provide facts to dispute her current denial of events taking place in the past. (Which is part of every phone call with her).

The only precaution required is to ensure my daytimer is not left out for my daughter to read when she is here.