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Chapin isn't against note taking. Chapin is arguing that any note taking system should be kept simple so administering it does not becomes a clever way to distr

Chapin isn't against note taking. Chapin is arguing that any note taking system should be kept simple so administering it does not becomes a clever way to distract yourself instead of doing real work. Note taking could be procrastinating, in other words. I get the point. Larry David of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld keeps a small paper journal in his pocket for jotting down notes. An extreme example of note taking is probably the guy who spends all his time trying to photograph and video tape his vacation to the point that he isn't actually "present" to enjoy his own vacation. tldr: Be careful your note taking doesn't interrupt and degrade your creative "flow" and resulting output

LennyHenrysNuts 4y ago
Thank you for digging through the word salad and finding the single juicy olive of truth in the middle.
- labrador 4y ago
  You're welcome. I'm one of those people who gets stuck on gathering information. I told my therapist I had 15 thousand bookmarks and her comment was "Why don't you just Google it?"
  - mod 4y ago
    How many of those bookmarks do you estimate are 404s now?
    - labrador 4y ago
      Right, so now I mostly see the titles of the bookmarks as a database of keywords I'm interested in that I can Google with later. It doesn't matter if the link is bad, Google will find it a new place. For example, 20 years ago I saved a link to cycling74, now dead. It had something to do with music and media performance software. Sure enough, they're still alive in a new location (https://cycling74.com/ https://cycling74.com/) I'm in the process of paring these links down to just keywords
      - mod 4y ago
        I was genuinely interested, so thanks for the response. I think a note-taking system would be great for the current version of what you're doing, because it would make the whole thing really easy to grep for keywords. I kinda wish I had all my really old bookmarks, but as you say--I can find what I want with google.

LennyHenrysNuts 4y ago

Thank you for digging through the word salad and finding the single juicy olive of truth in the middle.

labrador 4y ago
You're welcome. I'm one of those people who gets stuck on gathering information. I told my therapist I had 15 thousand bookmarks and her comment was "Why don't you just Google it?"
- mod 4y ago
  How many of those bookmarks do you estimate are 404s now?
  - labrador 4y ago
    Right, so now I mostly see the titles of the bookmarks as a database of keywords I'm interested in that I can Google with later. It doesn't matter if the link is bad, Google will find it a new place. For example, 20 years ago I saved a link to cycling74, now dead. It had something to do with music and media performance software. Sure enough, they're still alive in a new location (https://cycling74.com/ https://cycling74.com/) I'm in the process of paring these links down to just keywords
    - mod 4y ago
      I was genuinely interested, so thanks for the response. I think a note-taking system would be great for the current version of what you're doing, because it would make the whole thing really easy to grep for keywords. I kinda wish I had all my really old bookmarks, but as you say--I can find what I want with google.