A lot of people that constantly review notes are talking about category (2). I think your comment is mostly based on thinking of notes as (1). Things like personal commentary on topics, weighing pros/cons of different future actions, drafts of song lyrics, research ideas, etc. (2) notes to organize internal thought: a canvas for generating/synthesizing/connecting/etc ideas. Or one comes across a fact and makes a note of it. a professor might say something and a student writes that down. (1) notes as transcription of an external source or memorization aid: e.g. >do folks review their notes at all? I suspect back links aren’t the actual problem.ĭuring undergrad, I found I rarely reviewed my class notes,ĭiscussing the word "notes" is not easy because it encompasses a bunch of different uses. It's for keeping your own thoughts and observations, not for bookmarking random blatherings. keeping bookmarks to such stuff is hardly the use-case for a personal-note tool. Music/video is much more challenging in that regard: our computers' capabilities for searching those is pitiful, but then. (Edit to add: the "Backlinks" plugin is vital for using Zim for this purpose.) If I do want to do that I can (and do) just copy the relevant material over to my (static) blog, `git push` and the job's done. Roam, Notion and other web-based tools are just a fucking annoyance to me, being clunky to use and offering little since I have no need to access my notes across multiple devices, nor any use for publishing/"sharing" my personal notebook or pages with others. Over several years of doing this I've tried quite a few other tools, but none manages to hit the sweet-spot of simplicity and affordance I find in Zim. I use Zim Desktop for my notes because it's simple and (precisely) because it stays the hell out of my way and lets me focus on my own writing. Given the search capabilities of a decent personal-wiki-like there's not really much call to arrange, file, tag, classify notes.
I just make notes tied in to one or other index page, all of which (there are only a few more than a dozen or so) tie into a higher-level index page. As someone quite deeply into the "tools for thought" thing.
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