Did you ever wish that the attributes window in ArcMap would pop-up after you added a new feature? Well at the 9.3 release ESRI made this possible.

Steps to setup:

1. Start an edit session in ArcMap
2. Click on the Editor menu of the Edit toolbar
3. Choose Options
4. Click on the Attributes tab
5. Check the "Display the attributes dialog before storing new features" box
6. You then have the choice of doing this for all layers, or check which layers you this behavior with
7. Click the OK button to apply this

I want to give credit to the source where I saw this tip, which was a Training Seminar from ESRI called Editing in ArcGIS 9: Tips and Tricks III.

ESRI has a library of Recorded Live Training Seminars that are mostly free (some of the seminars older than 2005 have a cost) and last about 60 minutes each. If you are interested in ArcGIS Server, that has been one of the main topics of the seminars in the past few years.