I don’t get it... I use paper or a running text file for notes. Never have I ever had a desire to make it more complex than that. On a deeper level, I think pe

I don’t get it... I use paper or a running text file for notes. Never have I ever had a desire to make it more complex than that. On a deeper level, I think people who are obsessed with note taking are doing it wrong. I only do it to jot down things to follow up on from a meeting or a conversation. Anything more than that disrupts active listening and keeps you from actually participating in the discussion. In an academic setting, I would focus on listening and understanding the lecture and referred to the text when it came time to study. I’d maybe take notes for the occasional class where lectures didn’t follow the text, but usually would just get them from classmates who were more dedicated transcribers. The other thing is that notes tend to be ephemeral in my use case. Things to research or follow-ups from a meetings are basically a task list with a limited shelf life. I do jot down creative ideas in a few notebooks that I’ve kept over the years but that starts to approach journaling, which is a different beast. I guess software could make sense for that but writing by hand would have to become the rate limiting factor for me to cross the threshold.