For the past few months, I’ve added a new tool to my technical arsenal: Stamp, made by Sam Smallman of Artifice Industries Ltd

For as long as I can remember, I’ve taken notes during tech and dress runs on paper. Sometimes I said them out loud on com and an assistant furiously scribbled them down. Either way, I typically ended up with a bunch of scribbles that only halfway made sense. How many times have I said “Hmm. I don’t know what this one means. Next?”

Sam had been trying to get me to use his program, Stamp, for a very long time. Every time I posted a photo of a tech table, he’d ask where Stamp was. I finally decided to give it a shot on Mamma Mia in the Park, where the notes come flying fast and loose and it’s nearly impossible to get them all down on paper.