AN: This is my contest entry for the July contest at the TF Bunny Farm. This one was fun to write. Just imagining the look on Prowl's face made me smile.
Disclaimer: I don't own, much to my dismay.
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Perceptor always had problems keeping things organized. He just couldn't focus on keeping things neat when there was so much work to do. He knew it was a little ridiculous, but he could never bring himself to work out a system.
Even Wheeljack was better organized. He could at least find things in his jumble of mess.
Perceptor was contemplating his little problem while he walked down to the rec room to get energon. There weren't many bots there. Most everyone was on some sort of shift or in recharge. One smaller table, though, was occupied by Spike and Carly. They had the surface of the table covered in books and papers. Each had a block of smaller, square, yellow paper beside them. Perceptor watched as they looked over the papers, jotted something on the yellow paper, tore the top layer off, and stuck it somewhere else, usually on the side of the table.
"What are those?" he couldn't help but asked. He reached down and carefully fingered one of the little papers.
"Oh, they're post-it notes," Carly answered. "We're working on a research paper, so we need some way of organizing all of our information. This is my favorite way of doing it. Write one fact or reference on a note, stick it with all the other ones of its type, and later, go back through and put those in a useful order. They have sticky stuff on one edge of the paper so you can stick them just about anywhere."
Perceptor was silent for a long moment. "That's…that's brilliant."
The next mech to come into Perceptor's lab was in for quite a shock. The walls, cabinets, nearly everything was covered Transformer-sized sticky notes. It just so happened, this mech was Prowl.
"Perceptor, why do you have…post-it notes everywhere?" he dared to ask.
"It's genius, isn't it, Prowl? I can just keep this stack by me while I'm working and jot my notes down on it. If I have a stray thought, I can just put it on a separate note and stick it on a cabinet to look at later. I won't lose any of my notes this way!" Perceptor smiled. "Humans are wonderfully ingenious sometimes."
"Do you have a system of organizing the post-its?"
"Oh yes! Projects I'm working on go on different sections of the wall, normally the section where I'm working on them. Unless that section is being used by another project in the same location, then it goes elsewhere. Things I've thought of but am not working on at the moment go on the cabinets since those
notes normally aren't very detailed. Unless I go into detail on them by accident, then I will try to find free wall space for them."
Prowl struggled to make sense of this. "Wouldn't it be easier to just keep everything in a filing cabinet or datapad?"
Perceptor looked at him like he was crazy. "No."
