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The problem is that "taking notes" means different things in different contexts. For an academic sociologist, building a zettelkasten is a step in the process
by pqs 5y ago
The problem is that "taking notes" means different things in different contexts.
For an academic sociologist, building a zettelkasten is a step in the process of writing academic publications; for me an academic in Earth Science, taking notes is documenting the software my team writes, documenting the scientific methods we use; keeping track of tasks and writing meeting notes; for a programmer, taking notes is storing examples of code, ideas, etc.
That's why there is no one way to taking notes. There will almost be as many note-taking tools as people using them!
- ozim 5y agoLet's go one step further ... One person can have multiple systems of note taking. Just daily notes that you need to write down to keep some thoughts around. Other system might be for writing a book that needs to be really structured. I think problem is that a lot of people think that they need to have "one master system" to rule them all. But what is my idea - that if you have some daily note that you want to include in your book, you copy that piece to your "book notes" from your "daily notes" and have 2 copies in different contexts. Sometimes I have that grand idea that I would like to wrap my mind around entirety of my life ... it is just not possible and CONTEXT is the king.