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Types of notes
I used to have a very simplistic view of notes, treating all of them the same way regardless of their purpose or intended use. I would jot down information haphazardly without giving much thought to categorising or organising my notes in any particular way. This meant that I was oblivious to the fact that there…
Different notes have different purposes
Different notes have different purposes and knowing what kind of note you’re creating will help you figure out what you need to do with it. I used to think that a note was a note was a note. But there are actually different kinds of notes, each of which serves a different purpose. And if…
Expanding a note stub into a permanent note
In this video I walk through the process of taking a note stub (i.e. a “dump” of content into a note) and expanding it into a more comprehensive and useful permanent note. In the video I also review the sources I use to add information to the note, talking about why I value some sources…
Note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero
In this short video I demonstrate a strategy for note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero while reading on the web. I try to show the early stages of creating links between ideas that I’m interested in, and eventually where I add those ideas into my permanent notes. One of the challenges of being an academic is…