I have difficulty remembering what was said during the interview. After five conversations I have forgotten what I said in the first one (D6).
Be disciplined when writing up a sequence of interviews
• Never wait long before writing up your interview notes in a presentable, typed format. Respecting this rule becomes more critical when you carry out a sequence of interviews in a short period of time. Always write up the notes on the day of the interview.
• If you let two or three days pass by, you will probably experience difficulty reading your own handwriting or you will be unable to remember all of the things that you have not written down. But if you rewrote the notes immediately you would be able to remember these things without difficulty.
• After several days, other impressions and information, which you receive from other people, begin to mix with your interview results, creating an enormous problem in identifying from whom you received the information.
• Writing up the notes during a trip gives you the satisfaction of having your report finished before - or on the same day as - your arrival. Once you come back to your own country, it is far more difficult to write up the notes because your familiar surroundings will create new distracting demands. You will have told the story of your travel already several times. Writing down what you have already presented to people is repetitious, boring and therefore creates motivation problems.
