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industry. Apparently, black is the standard colour; green is used
by pharmacy services, red is used after death and for allergies,
and blue tends to be avoided due to poorer reprographic
qualities (thanks M Belcher).
Additionally I am informed (thanks T Kalota, Oct 2008) of a
useful brainstorming/organizing technique using coloured pens
when reviewing a written specification, or potentially any set of
notes for a design or plan.
Underline or circle the words according to the following:
nouns/people/things

black (entities)

verbs
('doing'/functional
words)

red

(relationships)

adjectives/adverbs
(describing words)

blue

(attributes)

This technique was apparently used for clarifying written
specifications or notes for a database design, and was termed
'extended relational architecture', advocated by a company of
the same name, at one time.
This method of colour-coding notes (using underlines or circles
or boxes) to help clarification/prioritization/organization/etc
can itself naturally be extended and adapted, for example:

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