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permanent notes


  • 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…