Through my working career, I have kept notes as I go. To begin with, I wrote things down on sheets of paper and put these into a ring binder, but after a bit I changed to writing in  spiral-bound books, written on one side only. Most researchers have their preferred method of record keeping, and this one I like, because

• It keeps things together
• If you get something wrong, you can rip out the erroneous page!
• You can write comments on the blank pages

I have now scanned many of these working note books, and they can be downloaded from the links below. These are volumes of presearch: many of the topics actually went nowhere, or were based on mistaken assumptions, or later developed into published papers, or were left in an unfinished state. You are welcome to pick up anything you find here, but if you develop it into some published work, please acknowledge that you found some of the questions here, even if you found the answers yourself.

The table of contents of the working notes series will be found here.

• Volume 1 (April 1987 – August 1989)
• Volume 2 (September 1989 – May 1990)
• Volume 3 (May 1990 – February 1991)
• Volume 4 (February 1991 – October 1991)
• Volume 5 (October 1991 – March 1992)
• Volume 6 (March 1992 – November 1992)
• Volume 7 (November 1992 – May 1993)
• Volume 8 (May 1993 – October1993)
• Volume 9 (November 1993 – May 1994)
• Volume 10 (June 1994 – January 1995)
• Volume 11 (January 1995 – June 1995)
• Volume 12 (June 1995 – January 1996)
• Volume 13 (January 1996 – October 1996)
• Volume 14 (October 1996 – August 1997)
• Volume 15 (August 1997 – March 1998)
• Volume 16 (March 1998 – September 1998)
• Volume 17 (October 1998 – August 1999)
• Volume 18 (October 1999 – August 2000)
• Volume 19 (August 2000 – July 2001)
• Volume 20 (July 2001 – April 2002)
• Volume 21 (May 2002 – March 2003)
• Volume 22 (April 2003 – September 2003)
• Volume 23 (October 2003 – August 2004)
• Volume 24 (September 2004 – May 2005)
• Volume 25 (May 2005 – May 2006)
• Volume 26 (May 2006 – January 2007)
• Volume 27 (January 2007 – September 2007)
• Volume 28 (October 2007 – April 2008)
• Volume 29 (April 2008 – April 2009)
• Volume 30 (May 2009 – March 2010)
• Volume 31 (April 2010 – January 2011)
• Volume 32 (January 2011 – July 2011)
• Volume 33 (July 2011 – February 2012)
• Volume 34 (February 2012 – October 2012)
• Volume 35 (October 2012 – August 2013)
• Volume 36 (August 2013 – June 2014)
• Volume 37 (June 2014 – March 2015)