Writing tagged: ‘note-making’
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Book review: ‘The Notebook’ by Roland Allen
A history of thinking on paper.
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A good reason not to write in books
I don’t want Former Me telling me which bits of the book are most noteworthy.
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Keeping sources and ideas separate
In which I am astonished by a reminder of how I used to work.
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My makeshift desks
In which I unwittingly mimic my hero with the aid of an old chopping board.
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Charles Darwin’s note-making system
An exploration of how Darwin kept track of his various notes, enabling him to produce a huge body of work.
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My notes ‘tagsonomy’
An overly nerdish description of the taxonomy I use to classify my various notes.
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My unplanned archives
Collections of informally documented stuff have become my archives of sorts.
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Converting my notes into a chapter
How I used my note-making system to research and write a chapter of my Darwin book.
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Fools and dilettantes
How the problems I’ve been encountering lately are a sign (I hope) that my book is starting to come together.
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Limitations of the blog format
For some time now, I’ve been growing increasingly conscious of the limitations of the blog format in catering for the provisional nature of factual writing.
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No going back
How was I ever able to organise my thoughts without ‘atomising’ them—breaking them down into smaller and smaller discrete notes—and then linking them together?