Hey no-cheating If you can write a notetaking app yourself, do it. That might be the only way to get it to fit your needs. I imagine these things need lots of options so people can fit it to themselves. As for your question: I'm a huge notetaker. I'm not in school, but I often go to lectures and seminars. If I don't take notes, it would be like a long dream. When I wake up, I know I had a long dream and I might remember the emotions, but after a few minutes the details are gone. I even take notes while I'm having lunch/coffee/dinner with someone. I put at the top of the page something like My Dinner with Andre and the date. With certain people, words and topics emerge that I record for later use. With new people, I might interview them. Seriously. I may turn those lunches into a story or blog later on. To keep my answer short: longhand in notebooks. Is my system organized, searchable, structured, effective: No Do I go back to my notes: Yes often What's the best part of my system: I try to keep a teeny tiny notebook with me always. I ask for teeny tiny notebooks for birthday presents and recently got 6 Moleskins. My notebook collection is not unlike the ones posted here: In case you missed it - a recent post called "Show Us Your Notebooks." You have found, in hubski, a notebook-loving community. A few more things about notes, before I go on and write some: 1. Writing the note is more important than going back and typing them out or reading them over. 2. Writing the note fixes it in memory - so even if you don't remember the note, you might remember that you wrote it and you might remember the day or event and can find it. 3. Of course, hard copy notes take up space, digital notes not so much. Were humans meant to take notes? Absolutely. That's what cave drawings are. (Maybe)
How did I miss that post? I'm a notebook hoarder myself...
So how many notebooks do you write a year? Do you write everything in a linear fashion or have some own system to it?You have found, in hubski, a notebook-loving community.
That's great
Life, hubski, blogging, working, interfere with my notebook-keeping. During my time of greatest personal growth (end of marriage, new life, new relationships), I filled a thick notebook every month with content, not collage. Now it includes collage (for example, on the first page of my current notebook there is a sketch of a dog that wasoxygen sent me in June 2014 when that journal starts. While I might be working on one journal since June, I've also filled 4 or 5 teeny tiny notebooks. I might also print up something that I sent in an email and stick it in the journal. I'd like to print out occasional comments on hubski and put them in the journal as well (note to self: add this to goals list). Lots to do. In any event, the system hopes to be linear but often is chaos. Yet somehow I manage to function. Question no-cheating: What is your GOAL in keeping notebooks. To organize? to remember? to use as source material for creation? to solve problems? Leonardo da Vinci kept many notebooks. They are all on line now, brought to us by Project Gutenberg. HINTS for people keeping notes in notebooks and not digitally: 1. date fucking everything. 2. don't use abbreviations that you will forget in 20 years. In one notebook entry from long ago, I was writing randomly about sexual experiences and I mentioned having sex with t. d. & h. Several years later, I went back to that notebook for some reason and I had no idea what I was talking about. Who was t., d. and h? I didn't remember having sex with t. d. and h. and I couldn't find any other references to them. I drove myself crazy wondering what I had written about. Then I realized it was a reference to the expression "Tom, Dick, and Harry" - as wikipedia calls it "a placeholder for multiple unspecified people."How many notebooks do you write a year?
Question no-cheating: What is your GOAL in keeping notebooks. To organize? to remember? to use as source material for creation? to solve problems?
Organize and remember were clearly the root reasons, but I see notebooks give much more possibilities (e.g. storing and organizing the knowledge I'm learning, writing down my ideas and then build something out of it) I could use it for and would like to, just don't have a clue how to start. You see I have a pretty hard time starting things, when I don't have a good plan on how to act. Guess I'm more a scientific kind of guy and lack a bit in creativity. I like to have some kind of discipline I set on myself and that shows even in my systematized well-organized note taking.In any event, the system hopes to be linear but often is chaos. Yet somehow I manage to function.
That is something that really amazes me, when looking at other people's notes. I filled a thick notebook every month with content, not collage. Now it includes collage (for example, on the first page of my current notebook there is a sketch of a dog that wasoxygen sent me in June 2014 when that journal starts. While I might be working on one journal since June, I've also filled 4 or 5 teeny tiny notebooks.
So what is the difference between the notebook and the teeny tiny notebook? What kind of different things you store there? Also what do you mean by collage? It's a bit abstract to me, as can be keeping up with chaos in the notebook.
a teeny tiny notebook will fit in a pocket. a journal requires sitting down with it somewhere quiet and filling pages. by collage I mean the paper stuff that are evidence of a story or event, but I might not have time to write the details, tickets, maps, lists, pictures, etc. like you would put in a scrapbook.
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