I keep a big spreadsheet of things in InkSeine that I'd like to change, fix, or think more about. So when it comes time to work on a design sketch for some feature, I want to see everything on my list about it so I can be sure I haven't forgotten something.

Here I'm using a snapshot from my spreadsheet to keep track of all the things I need to resolve. I highlight the key phrases before I start so I can really zero in my attention on the important points.

I check off things as they're completed. I also add notes about new issues that arise as I'm working. I added most of the comments drawn with the thick red pen at a later time when I was reviewing all my design sketches and trying to distill them into specific things to implement. I use OneNote for that crucial distillation step; I'll write a blog post about how I use OneNote for that some time. (Update: Here is my post about OneNote- Day #13 of the 12 day series, of course).

Now, it would certainly be possible to do all of this by switching back and forth to Excel and typing notes or inserting text comments there. But then that totally pulls me away, as FeralBoy over on the GottaBeMobile forums would put it, from all the "inky goodness" of drawing my design sketches.

And I, for one, try to stay as far away as I can from the black gaping maw of text's "ascii badness" when I'm in the creative flow of sketching out a design.

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