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> Taking notes is useless without a place to put them when you’re done. This isn't always true. I'd often take notes knowing I'd throw them away later. In thos
by sidpatil 5y ago
> Taking notes is useless without a place to put them when you’re done.
This isn't always true. I'd often take notes knowing I'd throw them away later. In those cases, the note-taking process itself served as the purpose, since it would help me learn and remember the content.
- allenu 5y agoI agree that notes aren't really useless even if you know you'll toss them out. I maintain a notebook that I write ideas and sketch solutions in. I don't treat it as something I'll revisit more than a month from now. I treat it more as a workspace for sketching out ideas and coming back to them a day or a week later to recall what was in my headspace. Usually I'll commit to a solution one way or another based on my notes and I usually don't revisit them after that. I think if I treated notes as "revisit this later" I'd be a little pickier about what I wrote down to reduce the noise, but that just prevents me from using the notebook for what I want, which is a place to brainstorm and sketch ideas.