Writing tagged: ‘note-making’
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Life’s too short for pristine notebooks
How I eventually overcame my reluctance to write in my precious notebooks.
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Nerdy in the extreme
In which I am extremely excited about a powerful (and free) new app.
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Making notes about my own book
In which going through a lot of faff yields benefits.
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When notes begin talking to each other
Out of nowhere, I suddenly found myself with an interesting new idea…
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Everything I needed was already in my notes!
I’ve known it from the start, but this new way of making notes is perfect for the way I tend to work. It’s what I’ve been looking for all these years.
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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?
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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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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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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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My unplanned archives
Collections of informally documented stuff have become my archives of sorts.
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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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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.