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Words: I have a number of people I consider my "best" friends. One of them, strange enough, I've never met in real life. That doesn't matter: I talk to Allie every single day. Between e-mails, Twitter, phone calls, text messages, and video chats, I definitely "say" more words to her every month than any other person that doesn't live in my house. Working on Document Life Workshop with Allie is like having a daily slumber party sometimes. We're always chatting throughout the day! We can be having an entire conversation in Friends and How I Met Your Mother references for no reason other than it's fun, and then we'll suddenly switch to brainstorm mode at the drop of a hat! I also love how ideas grow and change when we're together. An idea will start out small, and we'll keep changing it and molding it back and forth until the end result is something completely different (and more awesome) than what we started with.
I love having a friend that not only gets me as a person, but gets my interests as well. I can't wait to plan a real life slumber party!
What you can take from this:
- Remember to document the important people in your life that you don't actually see day to day. You can do this by taking a screen shot of a video chat like I did, or you can write about a phone conversation, print an e-mail, include a letter, or take a screen shot of text messages.
- To take this screen shot I used Preview, an application that comes pre-installed on Apple computers. To take a screen shot using Preview, open Preview, go to File, then Take Screen Shot, then From Selection. You then drag a box around the portion of the screen you'd like to capture. You can also use the shortcut command "Control + Command + 3". When you hold these three buttons down at once, a screenshot of your whole screen will be saved.
- I took some of these words from an interview Allie and I did over at Campfire Chic. I knew I already had a portion of what I wanted to say somewhere else, so instead of re-writing it, I molded it a bit to fit the format I was using. I do this all of the time by using the content of blog posts for memory keeping. Don't do the work twice!
This is my documentation from the Daily Doc | Nov 2012 handout. It has 30 prompts to use if you get stuck documenting. I'm tackling all of these this month AND doing unplanned daily documentation. I printed out the prompts (pages 2-4 of the handout) and I'm highlighting them to cross them off as I go. I'm not doing them in order; I'm using them as they make sense for me.
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