Realistically, these sorts of notes are often less about complex workflows and academic deep dives than making sure I have the results of a casual search or conversation ready to hand the next time the subject comes up. Many of my notes involve remarkably little “research” - I record milestones and meeting notes, information about books I’m interested in, links to vacation homes that might work out for different trips I’d like to take, photos of nifty kitchen mosaics and bathroom fixtures, records of how my tomatoes did in a particular spot, epiphanies about why particular television shows were great and how I can apply those lessons to my own fiction writing, etc. (View Highlight)
Las notas son registros sistemáticos de búsquedas simples.
It’s not quite journaling, but it is in line with the idea that in order to think clearly you must express your thoughts (View Highlight)
Everybody uses different vocabulary, but this is what I like to call active note making because it’s the sort of thing I do when I have a specific goal I am working toward. I do this when I have specifically allotted time for it. Emotionally, it feels a bit like questing, which is I suppose just another metaphor explaining how Obsidian helped me quit video games (not that I was trying to!) (View Highlight)
If I’m making my way across a long parking lot on my way to pick my son up from daycare, I’ll sort my RSS feeds. If I’m waiting by myself at the doctor’s office, I’ll read an article or two from my queue. If my kid or I are sick and he wants to learn about racoons, we’ll put on a documentary. I try to only check Twitter when I’m away from my desk, making tea or whatnot. (View Highlight)
Todo momento es Ăştil para consumir y anotar contenido de calidad.
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I almost never save advice or motivational statements; I absorb them or forget them. My notes are intended for things I need to reference, not for self-improvement. Others will vary on that, but it’s a philosophy that informs a lot of what I do, so I figured I should mention it. (View Highlight)
Although I don’t structure my notes as formal paragraphs (…usually), I do find this organizational method surprisingly useful. I’ve written about the value of consistent naming conventions at length before, but the short version is that for the kinds of notes I’m discussing here, I give them all file names that are claims. (View Highlight)
I mostly try to avoid highly technical solutions to problems because they are fragile, unwieldy, difficult to maintain, even more difficult to transfer between computers in a crisis, and even more difficult to adapt to different tools in a worse crisis (View Highlight)
Mistakes are how we learn; the worst thing you can do is nothing, but the second worst thing is to slavishly follow a system you don’t understand because you think it’s the One True Way. Even if it is the One True Way, it can be worth straying just a little so you can understand how good the path really is. Like playing the field a bit in college so you can better appreciate the person you finally wind up marrying (View Highlight)
My job is to write articles, not process notes, so I don’t bother to deal with every highlight I make. Inevitably, I read and highlight more articles than I have time to fully process in Obsidian (View Highlight)
As I read through the quotes, I make sure they still make sense, and go back to the original source and investigate them if they don’t. If something still seems pointless after I reviewed it in context, I just delete it. Once I’ve cleaned up any awkward formatting, weird links, or broken tags, I check to make sure the annotations are as useful as they can be. The main thing is to try to get a sense of why I highlighted the quote (View Highlight)
As much as I give the “paraphrase everything!” people a hard time, I do think it’s important to rephrase, summarize, process, reinterpret put quotes into a more useful format. The problem with “summarizing” is that most people wind up in the habit of swapping out words and phrases for synonyms, enough to avoid pinging a plagiarism meter. This isn’t enough to really make the quote useful, even if it does often help you confirm you understand it. I prefer to consider the quote evidence for a claim, which necessitates using it to make a claim (View Highlight)
Useful notes are messy, and time is valuable. A sense of completionism is nice for some things but mostly just gets in the way when it comes to learning. I read about 10% of the articles that show up in my feed. I take highlight about 50% of those, and affirmatively take notes on about 10% of those. This doesn’t mean I wasted my time reading, or that I failed at notetaking because I should have done a better job of taking comprehensive notes. It means I used judgment, and used my time wisely, and focused on things that were worthwhile from a return on investment perspective. (View Highlight)