Gabriella Lorincz

8 months ago

While completing my thesis, I found it overwhelming and couldn't find the words, even though I had a clear idea. After painstakingly reaching three-quarters of it, I failed to secure them in a safe place. To my dismay, my computer chose that exact moment to malfunction. The loss was significant, forcing me to revisit and rewrite a substantial portion of my thesis. And so it shaped it into the best version. 

Larissa Sousa

8 months ago

In our project, we are now facing some funding cuts and I was struggling to write best practice report and guidelines for our activities because the funding was cut mid way and we were not sure if it was best to simply close the project or look for alternative funding. We kept having meeting after meeting, to try and figure out what the best solution was for this case because we were not documenting things at best.  

Maria Johnstone

8 months ago

During the butterfly transect walk I was using a blank piece of paper to write down my finding.  This year I have found a reporting sheet in the documents that you can print out or have on your phone/tablet to record the findings.  If I had had this last year it would of made it a lot easier to record them just once rather than having to transfer them over.

Grey Fernandez

8 months ago

When working on a project, I'll usually start a document to brainstorm and usually build it out over time. It's easy to forget what I named the original document, where to find it, when it's considered official, and what I should do with the scrap materials from my brainstorming.

Deaoclearancia Lorna Dax

7 months ago

When I attended meetings i would write notes on any piece of paper I get. This would usually mean that the paper either gets lost or chucked away somewhere when i get back at the office. It was difficult to find it again, when wanting to make reference a=or simply check-up something. I have now made it a point to keep one notebook per year for any type of meeting I attend, easier to find information and make use of it.

Summer LaRose

7 months ago

In my job as an award manager, there are certain documents that are always saved in award files that don't have any relevant purpose for being there, and there are other types of documents with different naming conventions or different locations various managers choose to save them within the folder. It means that each folder is mostly consistent, but not totally consistent, and can cause confusion when exploring a folder from an older award to sort out information.

For my volunteer work, the organization has a problem relating to documents in our shared Google drive. Each team member has developed documents and folders that house information that makes sense to that individual, but the lack of a consistent system about what information we keep in the shared drive and how means that it really is just a conglomeration of unsorted information, and it is difficult to find what really matters at any given time. 

Rae Newbery

7 months ago

During a marine conservation field trip, a small team of us were writing up an independent report on the local wildlife. We didn’t have a clear plan for who was drafting what, or even where the documents should be saved. I worked on my section separately, as did everyone else using different formatting and structure. When it came to pulling everything together, we realised we’d duplicated some parts and missed others entirely. It took a lot of time to merge everything and could have been avoided if we'd agreed to have a shared file in the first place

Peter Smith

7 months ago

Writing a business case for adding more tall fen variety plants to our reed wetlands, in order to increase biodiversity, I needed to include information about all of the reed beds that would be included, their sizes, ages and where they were on the current refurbishment cycle.

I found some of the information on the old document storage system, some on the new storage system, some in the reed bed folder of the Projects team file, some in the reed bed folder of the Operations team file, some in personal folders by contacting those involved, and I still ended up with only about 3/4 of the information I required! 

Andrea Segovia

6 months ago

I am going through an application process for residency in the EU, and the list of documents that I have to file and present at the time of interview is honestly all over the place. I have some store in my google drive, in several different folders, some in my email and some in folders in my desktop files. Trying to find the right documents to print and organize the file for the application while take some digging and careful comparisson.

María Susana Barreto

6 months ago

I was develping the organization's annual report for 2024 and finding the images (photos) to go with every event or impact was very uphill. The reason was that people wouldarchive them without naming the pictures. Just uploading them as 123478345.jpg for example. And also not placing them in the correct folder in Drive

Solène Williams

6 months ago

When I have any kind of writing assignment to do and I haven't written in a while, a big block for me is coming up with a detailed outline first to organize my ideas. Usually once this is done, I can get to writing very quickly, but that initial first step can be quite time consuming.

Brenda Kamara

4 months ago

I had been working on sales figures in an excel sheet. There I was inputting data, the system updating from the the current data input giving output and i was happy. I went through all the work, it was flawless- well, according to my assessments. The problem came in, after i had already submitted the document, that the initial tab that summed the whole exercise figures hadn't updated as yet as there was an issue.It was then i decided to give myself a 10 minute break.

Brenda Kamara

4 months ago

Here is my document review tracker for exercise 3.

https://eu.docworkspace.com/d/sIMO4_MipArqiisMG?sa=601.1037