Gud Morning MEW
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Morning ya’ll.
I started morning pages today, let’s see how this goes and hopefully I can make it stick.
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Not sure if I could do three pages of writing. If what I googled is what you’re doing.
Good luck, have fun with it. I believe that should help make it stick.
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Approx. 750 words. Not too difficult if you’re just brain-dumping. At least I didn’t find it very difficult as I had a lot on my mind. But that’s the point, get it out to make space for real content and ideas. The challenge I am sure will come once the dumping becomes less and thoughts start taking over.
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Morning all
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@oltman (possibly @Avatar too)
How are your estimates/tenders typically named, is there a certain naming convention you use, is it dependent on the phase of the project/job, or is it reliant on the project or job name?
Open to having a call regarding this too, as of course, I would likey have follow-up questions. 
I have access to a dedicated sales team to who I can portion off difficult questions like that. I tend to only provide time estimates of different aspects of my projects. Out titles tend to be as simple as possible:
(DESCRIPTOR)(SERVICE)(TARGET) at (CLIENT).
So an example, Follow-up Fluffing of Pillows at Hotel, or Enhanced Cooking of Eggs at Restaurant. If specific product, like our software suite, are key, I’d work that into the title as well.
All that said, I’m terribly far from an expert. I’ve got a feeling @FarligOpptreden might be better suited here.
Edit: sigh, I’m not winning with the discourse markdown lately.
Fixed the above.
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Because we are quite small and only have a few projects a year, we use the year and order of project. For example, Mr Smith wants a house, and we start the tender is 2023. It is our 5th tender of that year. So we named it:
2305 - House Smith
23 - year
05 - # project that year
For the bigger projects that are broken into multi year phases we create new projects. New shopping centre in Nseleni, first phase is a Boxer and some line shops, tender for it in 2018 and its the 11th project that year.
1811 - Nseleni Phase 1 Boxer
The next phase is the hardware store, final tender in 2019, 1st tender of the year will thus be:
1901 - Nseleni Phase 2 Boxer Build
Then all emails containing either the project number or the area in the subject gets tagged as this project in GMail and makes it easy to find.
Our accounting system will also then use the 4 digit project number to make final accounts easier.
Sometimes an architect has his own numbering for the project, and insist we use that number in our correspondence, but that is not normally applicable once the project kicks off properly.
Very informational, thank you for sharing.
I think every business and industry has their own convention for naming and sorting documents pertaining to a project. I can’t think there’s really any science to it. That said, many business just follow the conventions set out by their CRM or ERP software. We can’t justify such an expense on our side, as we have only a handful of new projects each year, even though they are often long-running (18+ months). Our programme manager is quire draconian though, and she has strict standards for managing project documents across Teams / Sharepoint repositories.
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Appreciate the feedback.
I suppose I should have also stated that it was more specific toward the construction and build industry than of a generic nature. Working in the estimating/tendering phases and covering different standards, standardisation of naming conventions, also keeping in mind things like ASAQS, uniformat, calssification systems and then add on top of that user and/or organisation preferences.
Fun times.
On another note, curse my brain and OCD nature. I have been struggling to settle on a specific app for note-taking and PKM system. I won’t even get into the methods and techniques. But I keep hopping and bouncing between Obsidian, Logseq, and Capacities (Anytype also looks promising).
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Good morrow good citizens.
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The clincher for me was that if Obsidian decides to close up shop today, I still have all my notes in Markdown format on my hard drive. Couple with all the many plugins, and Obs is a winner.
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A little bit of a shameless plug, but we’re exhibiting a product idea that we have at the annual Web Summit conference in Lisbon next week. The main goal is to gather interest in the product from both early adopters and investors. It’s a product that I’ve been working on and off for the past 5 years that’s gone through many guises and iterations.
Seeing as we employed the 3D artist who did our website assets recently, I decided to task him with some motion graphics for mobile apps we’ve been doing. He also did the looping animation for the website of this product. The guy’s attention to detail is insane. Not to mention the fact that he delivered this in only a couple of days! Check out the website if you don’t mind and maybe send it along to anyone you think might have interest in the product.
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Very nice. Even a semi tech dunce such like me can understand most of it. Detailed enough to be informative without being overly technical. All round goodness.
If I had one small minor suggestion it would be to get yourself and Bruce set up in front of a dark background and take headshots that are more similar to your CEO and CFO ones.
Wish you and your team the greatest of success with Handlr.io (Got to start seeding that name somewhere, right?! 
)
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Yeah we’re planning new photos this weekend. Had to get the site up in a rush, so we just scraped the LinkedIn profile photos of everyone. 
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That looks really cool. Great website as well. The description had me looking for a pricing page to figure out if I can play around with it
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Haha, I have an idea for pricing (which would be much cheaper than competitor products), but sadly it’s in very early development stages. Hence only the interest in early adopters and investors at the moment.
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Yeah I figured, I just took that reflex of mine as a measure of success on your team’s part. Well done!
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I was leaning towards Capacities, at least from a personal perspective, but Obsidian’s simplicity meant it became more accessible. Once I started using it, however, I noticed it was anything but simple. This is where Logseq came in, it is simple enough at block level (like Capacities) but provides enough features to maintain simplicity while still being accessible and functional.
Logseq and Obsidian seem very closely related, the power of each of them comes from the plugins and community. Both also share the use of markdown files and syntaxes. I just find Obsidian requires a bit too much setup, structure and maintenance from me, whereas Logseq focuses more on bullet points, block for block. It is also nice to know that Logseq is completely open-source.