Taking notes is really easy and definitely not rocket science. Just grab a piece of paper or open your text editor. I do this all the time. Retrieving notes and

Taking notes is really easy and definitely not rocket science. Just grab a piece of paper or open your text editor. I do this all the time. Retrieving notes and making use of them quickly and accurately is (I find) extremely difficult. This post is missing the point. Complex note taking systems rarely focus on capture. They are concerned with organization, indexing, retrieval, and quick recall.