Documenting before an activity is like stretching and warming up before a run

Note: I have updates below...

# 6/17/2020

I've been preparing more and more before I play the game. Today I thought of it like stretching and warming up before a run.

Today I made an improvement to how I document my speedrunning. So I thought to document my speedrunning documentation process. While doing that, I made some improvements to the process. 

Here's my speedrunning documentation process:

1. Document what I'm going to do. Below is an example of what I wrote before even turning on the game to play it.

Studying Metro route #24

Reread my notes for section 6.2 and my notes from last session.

Trial 3 analysis: 

Reread my notes and compare and contrast it against my trial 3.

• 
  

Trial 4 analysis: 

Reread my notes and compare and contrast it against my trial 4.

• 
  

Decide next steps:

2. Do what I planned to do, while documenting each section before doing the next section.

3. Post to Mario Odyssey Discussion

4. Get link from step 3 and save it to my learning plan log.

------ Updates ------

# 6/18/2020

I followed my documentation procedure and I made improvements as I went. Below is what my documentation process looked like after doing trial 5 and before doing trial 6 of my 25th session studying the metro route. (no link because I haven't posted it yet.)

1. Document what I'm going to do. Below is an example:

Studying Metro route #25

Reread my notes for section 6.2 and my notes from previous sessions on section 6.2.

Trial 5 analysis:  

Reread my notes from last session and compare and contrast it against my trial 5.

• Problem: 
• Brainstorm solutions: 

Trial 6 analysis: 

Reread my notes for section 6.2 and compare and contrast it against my trial 6.

• Problem: 
• Brainstorm solutions: 

Decide next steps: 

2. Do what I planned to do, while documenting each section before doing the next section.

3. Post to Mario Odyssey Discussion

4. Get link from step 3 and save it to my learning plan log.

5. Update draft of next semiweek FI email with summary of this activity.

# 6/20/2020

This is my latest process.

1. Document what I'm going to do. Below is what I used for this speedrunning session:

Studying Metro route #[N]

Activity: Doing trials

Instructions and analysis:

Reread my notes from previous session.

Trial [k] analysis:  

Reread my notes from last session and compare and contrast it against my trial [k].

• Problem:  
• Brainstorm solutions:

Trial [k+1] analysis: 

Reread my notes from last session and compare and contrast it against my trial [k+1].

• Problem:  
•  Brainstorm solutions:

Decide next steps: 

 

2. Do what I planned to do, while documenting each section before doing the next section.

3. Post to Mario Odyssey Discussion

4. Get link from step 3 and save it to my learning plan log.

[note that I was able to remove step 5 because now I do that process once per semiweek instead of once per activity.]