(2016-09-06) Boyd Work Processing Coming Soon To A Doc Near You

Stowe Boyd: Work Processing: Coming soon to a ‘Doc’ near you

For several weeks, I have used Dropbox Paper as a work processing journal. This experiment has not involved others, so the social dimension has been limited, but I’ve used Paper with teams in a few projects before, so I can talk to how that might work.

Along with the social communications built-into these tools — like commenting, @mentions, and co-editing — inclusion of checklists has led to these solutions acting as content-centric work management tools, or ‘work processing’ tools. (CollaborationWare)

Work processing is more like writing in a journal, where occasionally you might add a list of things to do, but where the prose is where the most important information is found.

The core problem I’ve encountered is the dimension of time.