Poll: Do you use an editorial calendar in your Web design work?
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I tend to use task list, I’m thinking that’s pretty similar.
I think you just confused everyone by calling it an ‘editorial calendar’, it made it sound like a piece of software.
If you mean ‘Do you plan or schedule your work load?’ Then yes, I do.
Not sure what it is….
Couldn’t live without one. Client has a duplicate. Changes are discussed, agreed upon, then a revised calendar is circulated or posted.
I use OneNote in Microsoft Office for everything! Life, clients and personal sites.
I schedule my entire life – I may not stick to it but it’s on my calendar! There is just no way I could remember everything without writing it down. My family shares a calendar on mobil me, that we can all sink our “events” it works great for us. I think part of the service offered in being a web designer is keeping it updated and remembering when it needs to be updated. oh and yea – not sure I ever heard the term “editorial” calendar but I guess I get it now.
Never needed to… but I guess that’s because I don’t work on more than a single task simultaneously. I schedule every task for yesterday, then engage into my unhealthy 20 (or more) hours/day coding marathon until I get it done and tested. After that, I sleep as needed for my mind to recover from such insanity; then I pick a task, based on priority and mood (sometimes I’m not in the mood of doing anything “serious”, so I stick to putting UIs together; and sometimes I feel inspired enough to engage into site-wide re-structurations, complex algorythms, etc) from my task list and start over.
Rinse and repeat
Of course, for those people who need to meet deadlines, or to coordinate with other people, some sort of calendar or schedule can be really useful