Note-Taking: The Effortful Process That Pays Back Over Time
- Initially, it was just an idea for a future chapter, but the more I think about it and discuss it, the deeper I burrow into a hole that doesn’t have a bottom.
- Who is the person who can reap the benefits of a note-taking system?
- Is it the writer of a book, an academic, or a student?
- These are the categories Sonke suggested who can gain the most from systematic note-taking.
- However, I disagree with him.
- In my opinion, anyone can and will benefit if they take notes and process information in a specific manner.
- In short, the note-taking system is one of the elements of the productivity system that everybody dreams of.
- Allan, Dorofeev, Vasya Sour, and Archangelskiy all speculate that an efficient person takes notes.
- But they don’t delve deeper into the thought.
- I totally agree that we have to learn how to manage time and space, but I don’t disregard the idea of note-taking as simple and self-evident.
- It’s a hard process, and building a comprehensive system that satisfies the need is not an easy feat.
- Not so long ago, a member of my community asked a simple and obvious question1:
- How can a non-writer use a note-taking system?
- I’ve answered elaborately, though it could be stated in one simple sentence:
- We are not Socrates; we are incapable of thinking entirely inside our heads.
- To think, we need a place to think, and a note-taking system is an excellent place to achieve exactly this goal.
- In other words, I’ll restate the questions:
- Do only writers think when they work, or does everyone else as well?
- If the answer is no, then there is an answer to the question of why non-writers might require a note-taking system.
- To prove the point above, I’ll look into the curious case of a breadmaker, a machine that Sony Corporation designed long ago.
- Sony wished to create a machine that bakes bread at the level of the best baker in Japan.
- So, they approached the baker and asked him for his recipes and technology, which he provided.
- But the catch happened when engineers tried using the machine they designed.
- It didn’t create bread of the same quality.
- The taste and density were the same, but the bread lacked the texture and crunchiness.
- Instead of giving up, they sent a team of engineers to the bakery to record everything the baker did.
- And they found that the baker folded the dough in a special manner that kept pockets of air inside the dough, which popped in the oven, thus creating the texture and crunchiness.
- The key takeaway is this: reflect on everything you do, especially if it’s cognitively demanding.
- And if a solution is reached by a group or a person, then it would be wise to record not only the solution but also the steps and speculation that took place.
- We often forget about this important aspect and later regret it.
- And if a solution is reached by a group or a person, then it would be wise to record not only the solution but also the steps and speculation that took place.
- Who is the person who can reap the benefits of a note-taking system?
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спасибо, вопрос закрыл благодаря вашему ответу, и понял, что это как теоретическая проработка проектов, но как все таки может выглядеть работа с папкой ideas для, например, программистов? На этапе когда массив заметок уже переввалит за 350-500 вижу как еженедельный и рутинный процесс - копаться в самых старых заметках, чтобы постепенно обновлять и актуализировать их. Что еще можно придумать в этом кейсе для работы с базой? (заметок >500, тема материалов - база знаний по программированию в формате методичек вопрос-ответ) кроме или в довесок к рутине по воскресеньям актуализировать старые заметки? ↩