Shop Notes — Index

There is a tactile, visual advantage to analog indexing. It forces slow, deliberate categorization. Here is the step-by-step process to build a paper-based shop notes index.

Grab your current shop notebook. Write the number "1" on the spine. On the last page, write "INDEX" at the top. Then, flip back through pages 1-20 and write down just five keywords with page numbers. You have just started your first shop notes index. shop notes index

You can find "useful text" and article locations through these major indexing sources: There is a tactile, visual advantage to analog indexing

: 10:21 (Lathe stand), 124:5 (Shop vac attachments). There is a tactile