TTSS: a notebook on life.

Summer is finally peeking its welcome self out. It’s amazing what a bit of vitamin D can do for the soul. That and a good week – and this one’s been exactly that. Rustling up more coachmark tours. With couple of iterations complete, these are now wrapped up. For now… Completing a self review. These can…

An awesome week filled with lots of learning and meeting people face-to-face. Here are some of my highlights. Publishing content guidance. My team has spent weeks working on a content wiki with lots of examples to help empower others. We’re now publishing things and it’ll all soon be live. It feels so good to do…

It’s been a good, full and varied week. I’ve been in the office, I’ve worked from home and a co-working space, and the sun is shining. It’s even… almost… hot. I’ve jinxed it now. Flexing up where I’m working. I’ve toyed with the idea of paying for somewhere to work a day a week or…

Hello there, Friday. Once again we’re at the end of the week. Here’s how this Bank Holiday 4-day blur has gone. A new ‘approvals’ project. This one is involves sense-checking the designs so far. The tricker bit is finding the right terms for different users of our software. The terms need to distinguish what each…

The hard thing about writing Weeknotes can be trying to remember what happened on Monday. I usually write short notes as I go to combat this – but not this week. Fixing the finer details in a quality marathon. I dedicated 2 days this week to this. Unlike a hackathon, we logged and refined all…

This week has been a lot of setting things up. In the past I’ve tended to start a task and see it through before starting another. I’ve tried this rather than spinning many plates at once to manage stress and overwhelm. There’s a down side to this. When a task has dependencies on other teams…

This week I’m continuing with rolling projects so this update might be short and sweet. A lot of naming projects. These used to be my nemesis, my kryptonite. When I worked in the hospitality industry I worked on naming restaurants and bars. It was hard. I thought it was me and that I’d found my…

That parrot? That’s me. This is what I look like by Friday after a week of madness. I may be spinning, but I’m still happy. The madness has included: Reviewing settings prototypes. I do this every so often to catch any changes. Reviewing mobile prototypes. This is also an every-once-in-a-while thing I do to familiarise…

This week has been a week of 2 main focuses: terminology and adding to a content wiki. The latter is quite a task, so I’ve batched the work up and will be working on this for the next few weeks. Here’s a summary of how this week has rolled… Sharing terminology results. It’s one thing…

It’s been a slow week for me. I’ve not been feeling well so I’ve tried to rest and get through the easier tasks on my list. More copy testing and analysis. I’ve run a terminology copy test with accountants and bookkeepers. I’ve now launched the same test with business owners. I got the results for…

I have a bunch of (self-driven) deliverables for Q2 so I’ve planned my work up until the end of June. That feels far away, but I know it’ll creep up on us! Here’s some of the stuff that’s on that list and how it’s going. Strategy and wireframes for a content wiki. I’m transforming our…

A colleague shared this post about Weeknotes. One thing that’s really stuck with me from it is taking no more than 30 mins to write a Weeknote. I managed this last week and I’m hoping I can manage to do it again today. Learning even more about accountants and bookkeepers. The software I work on…

This has nothing to do with Weeknotes, but in the UK it’s been raining for… forever! And as we swap to British Summer Time this Sunday, I hope we start seeing brighter skies. I’d quite like to wear something other than a raincoat. On the work front it’s been a productive week, despite it being…

Hello Friday, I’m ready for you. This week has included: Continual terminology documentation and testing. We have a new research repository so I’m migrating testing results over. I’m also capturing a bunch of terms that I plan to test. Plus other terms that I’m making grammar and formatting decisions on. Holistic content reviews. I mentioned…

My main focus this week has been goal-setting. It’s taken a bit of time to get right, but it’s done. I had put together a first draft of my goals and shared it with my manager. She gave me some great feedback, and so did her manager. Perhaps it was a language thing rather than…

Is anyone else feeling a bit blah right now? I’ve had a few days of this and I’m putting it down to the crap British weather. In Scotland, we’d say it’s, “Fair dreichit” – wet and miserable out. Spring, hurry up. The crocuses are out at my local park, which I’m loving so I’m clinging…

I keep writing 2023 on these. I’m not sure what that says. Nothing, I guess, as long as you don’t look into it. Anyway… This week has been a speedy one. That’s all good though as I’ve got through a lot and I’m feeling good about how things are going. Here’s a list of what…

Yowzers. I was getting used to the weeks feeling a little longer and this one has zipped by. It’s the second half of our sprint this week, so I’ve been continuing with most of the projects I mentioned last time. Onboarding content is one of the other things I’ve been working on. I’ve paired with…

This week has been another slow-ish one, which I’m enjoying. On Monday I ran the brand language session I’d been planning. After that, I got stuck in with some micro copy, and content ops stuff. It’s been a good week. Brand language workshop. A lot of planning has gone into this. It was such a…

I figured out that this week has been the first 5-day week I’ve worked in something like 7 weeks. And it felt like it went slooooow. I’m embracing that though. I know I harped on last year about how quick the weeks were going. Here’s a snapshot of some of the stuff on my plate…