Thank you for sharing the details of how your note taking has evolved. It is kind of interesting the whole “we can know a fictional character so well yet feel a stranger to ourselves”.
Critically, it sounds like chronology is the most important part of retrieval for you since it’s a journal, a record of what you did on a given date. I think that’s different to my purposes, because an “idea” could be important at an unknown point in the future so, or never, so I need a different organization and retrieval system than chronology. Different courses for different horses.
Yeah. I also note down ideas. Most of the time it’s just a part of my habitual writing. Since Notability allows me to search, it’s usually not too hard to find.
Recently, a friend asked me a difficult question, which I needed to consider and process before answering. My journal entry for that day included my musings.
I also realize that use it professionally too, when I’m working out a problem, or when I need to make lists. I’m a software engineer, so that’s not uncommon. For a while I was keeping a work journal, but now that’s sort of been subsumed.
I do make dedicated entries on topics too. I have a whole section for a game I run. I often reference those when we play.
Notability isn’t great for linking between notes. If you need that, I’d find another app for sure. If you’re writing out notes that you want to be able to search for later, I’d recommend it. That’s especially true for handwritten notes.
Thank you for sharing the details of how your note taking has evolved.
It is kind of interesting the whole “we can know a fictional character so well yet feel a stranger to ourselves”.
Critically, it sounds like chronology is the most important part of retrieval for you since it’s a journal, a record of what you did on a given date. I think that’s different to my purposes, because an “idea” could be important at an unknown point in the future so, or never, so I need a different organization and retrieval system than chronology. Different courses for different horses.
Yeah. I also note down ideas. Most of the time it’s just a part of my habitual writing. Since Notability allows me to search, it’s usually not too hard to find.
Recently, a friend asked me a difficult question, which I needed to consider and process before answering. My journal entry for that day included my musings.
I also realize that use it professionally too, when I’m working out a problem, or when I need to make lists. I’m a software engineer, so that’s not uncommon. For a while I was keeping a work journal, but now that’s sort of been subsumed.
I do make dedicated entries on topics too. I have a whole section for a game I run. I often reference those when we play.
Notability isn’t great for linking between notes. If you need that, I’d find another app for sure. If you’re writing out notes that you want to be able to search for later, I’d recommend it. That’s especially true for handwritten notes.
I’m curious to know what you land on.