I take notes, but I’m not that great at organizing them. Okay, I’ll admit it. I suck at it.
I get lost making an outline. Am I using subheadings, sub-subheadings, or sub-sub-subheadings right now? Do I need a capital D, a roman numeral IV, or something like a 1a or double-Z?
I forget where I left my index cards, I tangle up my mind map branches, and walk around unwittingly with post-it notes attached to my posterior.
So, I try to keep it simple. I write my notes in a spiral bound sketch diary and organize them by breaking things into chunks and placing the chunks inside of boxes.
The picture above is a scanned image of a page from my sketch book, one on which I jotted notes from a guitar lesson. You can see the boxes.
How do you keep it together when you’re taking notes? Do you even take notes? Share, please. I’d like to know.
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Ken,
I make lists, lots of lists, in wired ring notebooks. Or, on a loose leaf of notebook paper that I always carry in my front pocket. Then we I get the time, these handwritten notes, jottings, and brain dropping get crossed off or typed.
Most recently I have begun to use Evernote to save thoughts, web links, etc. With Evernote I make folders for topics I am writing or researching or teaching on. Then when I see something on the web, I drop the link into the folder. If I have an idea, I record it on my iPhone Evernote app.
The new electronic method works for me, though pen and paper remain essential.
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