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About the taking notes advice: Make it simple. Use normal paper.Buy color pens like this: https://www.ebay.es/itm/153878354093 https://www.ebay.es/itm/153878354093 A clipboard: https://www.ebay.es/itm/132927898467 https://www.ebay.es/itm/132927898467 Paper in infinitely flexible and cheap. I use tablets along with paper, but they are too expensive for note taking. Unless you are a programmer, do not use things like roam research. It is too complex and too rigid. If you want to create a new habit, it must be very simple and unsophisticated. Over time you will complicate things, but first you need to get used to the simple thing. It is better to do something simple today that trying to do something so complex and perfect you never do. I scan my papers with an automatic feeder scanner. I digitalize the strokes. I have a library that I can access remotely, but I started simple. About the personalities, you can study this stuff, so you can identify fast if someone is agreeable or disagreeable, extrovert, introvert, sensory... if you have a company, it has an enormous utility.

bachmeier 6y ago
> Unless you are a programmer, do not use things like roam research. It is too complex and too rigid. Care to expand? I've only used Roam a bit, but when I did, I pretty much just typed directly into the daily note and that was it. Roam is more for thinking and connecting ideas is my understanding. Programmers typically keep notes for future reference.
- munchbunny 6y ago
  Even as a programmer I write my thinking-notes on paper. Research notes are digital. I find that the input mechanism for digital notetaking (line by line unless you use your stylus for a bit and then you fiddle with it afterwards) constrains my ability to structure thoughts on paper. Mind map tools have the same problem: the tools constrain the way I think. Of course your mileage may vary, but even with an abundance of digital tools I personally find that I prefer to always keep a notepad and pen handy. Leaving the screen helps too.
  - Viliam1234 6y ago
    Paper is effectively an extra screen.

bachmeier 6y ago

> Unless you are a programmer, do not use things like roam research. It is too complex and too rigid. Care to expand? I've only used Roam a bit, but when I did, I pretty much just typed directly into the daily note and that was it. Roam is more for thinking and connecting ideas is my understanding. Programmers typically keep notes for future reference.

munchbunny 6y ago
Even as a programmer I write my thinking-notes on paper. Research notes are digital. I find that the input mechanism for digital notetaking (line by line unless you use your stylus for a bit and then you fiddle with it afterwards) constrains my ability to structure thoughts on paper. Mind map tools have the same problem: the tools constrain the way I think. Of course your mileage may vary, but even with an abundance of digital tools I personally find that I prefer to always keep a notepad and pen handy. Leaving the screen helps too.
- Viliam1234 6y ago
  Paper is effectively an extra screen.