September 19th 2018, I
documented the entire day and all tasks I accomplished throughout the day with all
the different digital tools available; Word Processor, Spreadsheet,
Presentation and Database. (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Access).
The following is my experience with each of those tools. Each of the different
applications used for this have very specific sort of functions tasks that they
are better utilized for or built for.
Word Processor
A word processor is key in
documenting items such as essays, letters, memos, journal entries etc.
Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is very useful in
documenting information that can be used to display data visually such as
numbers and statistics gathered together to show a specific picture in the form
of graphs and other visual tools to display the data that is in a people
friendly format rather than just a bunch of raw data.
Presentation
A presentation takes the people
friendly items from a spreadsheet to another level adding not only just number
data but also text like from a word processor and putting them into a visual
presentation in the form of slides that can include sounds, narration via
audio, animations and very pleasing backgrounds and fonts and other items to
really engage the targeted audience.
Database
Database applications are meant
really to just store data that will later be used in other front-end
applications to display those data sets, they are extremely powerful and useful
in keeping data organized and stored safely for later use and can also perform
very advanced data manipulation and formatting within the DB that may be more
difficult or not even possible in other applications.
Conclusion
I feel that out of all the applications that I used to
document my day that a spreadsheet is the most appropriate for this task as you
are able to label each column and row and provide not only all the relevant
information for each task but also calculate the amount of time spent and can
see all this information within one screen rather than multiple pages or
slides. I feel that for word processor a digital journal would be most useful,
if you are presenting smaller amounts of data or text and want to be able to
show this more though pictures or bullet point items than presentation is best
and for storing raw data and being able to pull that data at anytime and
display it in other front-end methods that Database is best. 
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