I want to share the results of a little experiment I did over the last few months using my My Big-Arse Text File. I've been using this semi-structured text file to track my consulting activities for the past two years, and it contains a mixture of things like:
- consulting activities,
- networking connections [1],
- lessons learned (see Some thoughts from tracking "lessons learned" for a year),
- contact information,
- idea capture (see Pickle jars, text files, and creative idea capture),
- book notes (see How to read a lot of books in a short time),
- blog topics,





