Personally, a lot of notes I write down everyday are inspiring thoughts and ideas from the books I'm reading. Something about the rotary motion of pen on pape

Personally, a lot of notes I write down everyday are inspiring thoughts and ideas from the books I'm reading. Something about the rotary motion of pen on paper, and the way it deliberately focuses my thoughts helps me recall them better. (Also ... people tell me my handwriting doesn't exactly suck :-).) Another example: In the last two weeks, I've visited four different museums and exhibitions of an artist I'm studying (Peter Bruegel the Elder[+]; 2019 is his 450th anniversary). Based on these study visits, in a good few pages, I jotted down what I learnt so far (on language, art, culture and science), drawings and copperplate engravings I wanted to further study, Dutch proverbs I learnt, several threads to further explore, new things I wanted to learn, relating ideas from Bruegel's work to topics I've learnt from a recent book I've completed, and so forth. Do give the handwriting thing a try. [+] https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F0h6nl?hl=en https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F0h6nl?hl=en (This Google Culture project has some splendid high-resolution scans of Bruegel's paintings.)