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Discussion on: Techpeople, do you ever take notes?

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Thank you for your response, Murray.

I think your metaphor is exactly how I see the concept of 'taking notes'. Otherwise, my ideas/concepts would disappear the next second or minute. Even just a little sketch could really help me not to forget that I was inspired in that moment.

I think most people really don't know how to take real notes, important for them, and maybe that's why they don't do it or find it useless.

After 3 years of programming I still check my own noobie-guides, we can't remember everything, we must leave some space in our heads for our daily-life important things: family, friends, birthdays, gifts, our own interests...

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MurrayVarey

If I'm being honest, I'm probably no good at real note taking myself. Even those ideas I do capture ... most of them go nowhere. Perhaps some kind of review stage is just as crucial for long-term notes. Or a Zettelkasten, as Thomas De Moore talks about here.

So true, we can't know it all. We'd go mad trying.