eJournal User Guide: What eJournal Does
Overview
eJournal is an application I developed to digitize my project notes.
Anyone in any profession takes notes and when they need to find out about something
they did months ago, they have to dig through their notes to find the relevant information.
With this application, they can search all of their notes for the relevant information.
Other uses I have seen for this application have included a means of keeping track of
daily activities, achievements, discoveries, and questions. Because of these uses, this tool
is a very effective knowledge sharing tool for teams and team leads. If team members can type
this information instead of hand-writing it, they are more likely to refer to their notes and
make them more useful.
Features
- Configure location of journals
- Review and Revise existing journal entries
- Delete existing entries
- Merge several entries
- Search ALL journal entries
- View Journal Entries using Internet Explorer
- Journals are stored as XML documents
- Print Journal Entries from the application
- Platform independent (Java-based)
Benefits
- Digitize your project notes!
- Search through your notes electronically. Especially helpful for finding
information quickly.
- When it comes time for performance reviews or status updates, you can review
exactly what you did, when you did it, and what the added value was.
- Since the journals are in XML, you can view them in any web browser that supports XML. This
enables you to print the journals and read them at your leisure.
Document last modified on July 20, 2002.