Temporary notes
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4 responses to “Temporary notes”
I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve found this section on temporary notes a threshold moment for me. I somehow have temporary notes (almost everywhere and in every medium) that become a permanent never ending ‘to get to’ list. I have more reading to do that I can probably manage in a lifetime and lots of ideas that get ‘jotted’ down somewhere – often without retrieval. I can see I need to learn to prioritise and de-clutter these to make progress and gain headspace for the important things. I suspect it won’t happen overnight but thanks for the insights Michael.
Hi Alice. I’m glad to hear that the section on notes has resonated with you. I’ve done a lot of reading around note-taking, but the resource that influenced me the most was How to take smart notes, by Sönke Ahrens. If I’m honest, it’s not the most well-edited book (I believe he self-published it), but I thought it had more insights / page than almost anything else I read on note-taking.
I enjoy using the one note audio note taking on my phone; and the dictation function on my laptop for quick notes etc – very functional and easy to access.
Hi Trevor. I’ve started taking audio notes in Google Keep and / Google Recorder. I really like the automated transcription that turns the speech into text. It’s more useful for longer notes, and also for those times when it’s inconvenient to type.
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