TTSS: a notebook on life.

Hello, Friday. This week’s been a funny one. Not ‘funny ha ha’, more ‘funny’ as in a little testing. I’m heading to a gig tonight so I’m looking forward to tying up work in a nice bow until next week. Monday. I worked on the content for some new security measures coming in. I took…

Hello, Friday. Pensive is the word I’d use to summarise the last 5 days. My thinking cap is looking somewhat threadbare. Here’s why: Scratching heads together on IA. We’re refreshing our mobile app at work. We have started exploring our current information architecture versus what it might look like. We’ve mapped the existing IA and…

Blimey, Fridays come round quick. A colleague said on Wednesday that their week was dragging. The weeks always go so fast for me, and this one’s been bussssssssssy. I’m pretty exhausted. Here’s just some of what’s happened… Showcasing a ‘single source of truth’ (SSOT) for copy. I took the copy team through the SSOT I’ve…

Swiftly moving on from the lack of my Weeknotes last Friday, here’s this week’s… Culling meetings to create focus time. I’m not afraid to say no to things if I need to, and this week it was meetings. Monday was pretty much back-to-back calls. When I checked to see what Tuesday looked like it was…

Woo. This week’s been somewhat straightforward – I’ll take that. It’s Friday and the sun is shining, so I’ll keep this short. Enjoy the weekend. Continuing onboarding comms. We hit a few snags with this when it was user tested. I’ve been simplifying the content (it was much needed). Hopefully, there’ll be time to test…

A week with not much to write home about. Pleasant enough and progress made on many tasks. Kicking off an IA project for a mobile app. We’re right at the beginning (mostly conversations on who’s doing what and what think the work will look like). There’s not too much to say on this one right…

I’ve had a banger of a week. Loads and loads of good stuff (unfortunately, while having a throbbing, lingering headache). Never mind. Let’s focus on the banging progress. (I know how happy my colleague Soph will be at me using the word “banging”). My bangtastic week (eurghh) has gone something like this: Sketching. And sketching…

I started today at the gym and then with my first sea swim of the year. Anndddd it’s Friday. Can I bottle this “pumped and achieving” vibe, please? (I know I’ll need some in future). Tangent over, here’s how work went this week. Building a reusable copy library. It’s annoying when you can’t find something…

Friday. Already. This week’s felt like I’ve done a lot of stopping and starting. I’ve felt low on mojo so have needed to rest – and I’ve tried my best to roll with that and not feel bad for taking the time. When we need to rest, rest. I’ll try and remember that… I’ve still…

It’s been a week of ups and downs. Some frustrations at the length of time it’s taking to get budget for my team and others for training. And some more due to lack of clarity on current recruitment. That said, I’ve made loads of progress too – transforming my frustrations into healthy actions. And also some…

This week marks 10 weeks of writing Weeknotes. That’s gone fast! So has this week (don’t they all whiz by?). Pricing and packaging content has taken up much of my time this week. It’s been really nice to have a chunky project and to spend some proper time on it rather than flitting from one…

Second week of feeling a bit flat. But hey, that’s life and its ups and downs. I’m cracking on and rolling with the punches. Some great stuff on the go this week, particularly my first point. Let’s go… A whole day uninterrupted by meetings. I love it when this happens as I can really get…

The week ending 7 April was a busy one given I’m publishing it a little late! I did have stuff written down, important stuff, so I’m still posting this even if it is actually these Weeknotes that are from today. Growth, productivity, capacity planning. I’ve spent a lot of time looking into how we can…

Feeling a bit flat is how I started this week. I think it was a combination of amazing weather, then rain, rain, rain. That, and I didn’t exercise as much over the bank holiday as I usually do. Well, I swapped boxing and training for longer dog walks – which were lovely – but I…

Last week I was away and then had that awful thing called Norovirus. So, I’m giving myself a break rather than a hard time for skipping last week’s Weeknotes. I’ve felt very much like a new human this week. I’ve channelled this into one of the most productive few days of the year. I’m feeling…

Late, yes, but still worth publishing for reflection. Last week went like this: Starting to reassess processes. It’s been roughly a year since we put our content process in place so I’ve stopped to get some feedback. I’ve met with stakeholders across the business to ask for their thoughts. I’ll also be sending a survey…

Hello again, Friday. Embracing the meh and carrying on regardless. I’ve felt a bit crappy this week for no particular reason. Yet, I’ve got stuck in with tasks and exercise hoping it’ll pass. It’s crazy British to winge about wet weather, but that has played a part in it. Come on, Spring! Pricing, packaging, research.…

It’s time again to reflect on my week. The sun is shining and it’s Friday. Let’s do this! This week went like this:

Last week I had a groan about too many meetings. This week seems to have followed suit with meeting after meeting. Grr. Still, I made some good progress. Working asynchronously. I have mixed feelings about this, particularly as it can cultivate silos. One positive way I’m embracing async is by canning meetings where a quick…