Hello I am wondering if any of the newer members have thought about this. There is a lot of info in the tutorials each with there own address so is there a list of all the address's or has anyone ever downloaded all of them to create a cheat list, so when they get involved in a post they can look at the list and address's and then give the right tutorial to someone when working with them.

Hello and are you saying go for it and do a cheat list wow that's a lot of work but I will do it with your permission becuase I think it will help me in remembering where they are so I can help people who log on and maybe even a few members but I wanted to make sure it is ok before I start. Thank You


Tom

Yes I agree I am just trying to remember things to help people and I thought by seeing them in front of me all the time it would be a great start for remembering where they are and which ones would benefit the most for someone who is needing help. Just trying to learn the right way and that way is vistax64 way. Thanks as always.

Tom

Thank you again and I will look at them a lot closer.

Hi Tom,

Everyone does it differently and you have to choose your own style. If there's a "Vista64" way, I do not know about it.

I have a bookmark folder for Vista Forums and it contains most links I've found useful (some are even threads or specific posts in threads) - both Tutorials from here and links from elsewhere on the web. I should probably take the time to separate the Tutorials, but haven't done so yet.

You could always create a "Tutorials" folder in your favorites list (or within a broader "Vista Forums" folder) and add to it anytime you find a link or tutorial that you think will be useful to you in answering questions. You can do this by checking the posts of those of us who reply frequently as they will contain the most frequently recommended (and then just add that link to your bookmarks folder) or you can go through the tutorials yourself and if you find any you think might come in particularly handy, include them as well. You may even want to break "Tutorials" down into 'Frequent Tutorials" and "Useful Tutorials" or whatever. Just don't go too overboard or you'll end up with a list that's so long it no longer serves the original purpose of making the ones you expect to use most often easier to find. At this point, I have so many, it's sometimes easier to just Bing the topic to find the link than to search through the list. I suppose I could do some better organizing, but I never seem to find the time for that. I probably should have started with several folders to separate the topics better - but alas, I didn't think about that until it was too late. If you prefer a document with the list as opposed to favorite bookmarks, that's up to you - whatever you feel will work best how you do things.

I also keep a Word document open that contains answers I've created and used in the past that can be handy starting points for future answers on similar topics. It's about 50 pages long right now. It's not well organized and I find things mostly because I use it enough to know about where everything is - and is another thing that could use some structure. Plus this document requires constant revision as new products become available, new or better links are identified (or old ones are removed), better ways to word things are discovered when editing the copied drafts (they almost always need some type of editing, but still save time) and the new post is then copied and used to replace the old one in the Word document, and new posts are created which deserve to be added as I feel they may come in handy again (especially if they involve a lot of research with a lot of links that I don't then need to do all over again). I think others do this to some degree, though I suspect few do it as much as I have. Whether or not you do something similar is entirely up to you.

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

Me? Incredibly disorganised! Constantly re-writing things every time, searching Google with this site and my name, trying to find my old posts. I must do something about this sorry state of affairs! By writing this, I probably will. I just felt a need to do it, and that won't leave me until I get it done. I absolutely guarantee that this will be different after the weekend. I certainly didn't plan this when writing this, but I guess it has gotten me over the hump of procrastination (not that I have ever described myself as that before)