In Campfire & Getting Things Done, John Ratcliffe-Lee says, "Campfire's excellent real-time record keeping ability, multiple chat room (or page) features, access options, and file management tools are ideal for not only the GTD system but point-of-contact record keeping."
He also outlines a smart way to use Campfire for taking and sharing class notes.
Start with a fresh Campfire account for each semester. At my school, 5 classes a semester is the normal load, so Campfire's free version works perfectly. For example, my new Campfire account could be called "fall06.campfirenow.com."
From there, create a chat room for each class with it's name (i.e. COM 460: Adv. Multimedia Comm.), these rooms act as pages where your notes for each class will be kept. Along with any relevant documents, files, etc.
Since Campfire logs the exact date and time each time you enter a room or "page," it makes for more intuitive note-taking. You can just type whatever the teacher is saying or notes you want to take. Think of Campfire as your big 5-subject notebook in the sky that lets you take your notes everywhere there is a net connection. Campfire logs the time and date of whatever you type and you can search for something specific in it's excellent transcript section. A lot faster than flipping through endless pages of blue or black ink.
Someone from you class need the notes? Want to share your notes for a group project or double-check with a professor? Either share whichever Campfire page you want or give anyone with an e-mail address member access to the chat rooms. A lot more simple and effective than meeting a person all the way across campus, 11pm on a Monday night. If you have to share a room, locking others that contain sensitive information is easy. Also, you can add topics to each room or page to give a more detail to each class.
