get.mem.ai

Looking at all my notes about notes and got a song stuck in my head

Visual Studio Code

For programmers who never want to leave their programming environment

Classify, collect, and query. When how you store notes is as important as what you put in the notes.

editor extensions

obsidian.md

Networked Notes

Where you can link notes, see backlinks, and see a cool graph of all your notes. That’s most of them these days, but it’s what I think of first with these.

Task trackers

The same team wrote Dynalist and Obsidian, though they’re spending most of their time on Obsidian now

Athens Research

AI-enhanced

Forces you to be explicit about what the most important bits are

see what’s going on at a glance

Simple-looking apps with fancy background logic to keep track of things

Structure notes, topics, and subtopics via indentation and bullet points

density, color, pattern, font

logical framework

technique becomes easier while learning remains high quality

arranging connections with intentional flow

Notes about closely related topics

Abstract doodles are good enough, as long as you know what it meant

start by just shaving some words of your old style

reduce cognitive load of technique without reducing cognitive load of learning

Project collaboration

forcing more creative techniques enhance repetition

new and distant connections

enforce a big picture view of info

writing stuff down

may be demotivating

Interconnected

increase metacognition

Whiteboards

linear notes are a waste of time

improve critical thinking

enhance creativity

Processing your notes — that phase between collecting them and making something with them

Bullet Journaling

Visually arrange your notes in space for intentional connections

categorizes and simplifies big concepts

Quick capture bookmarks, ideas, and that thing someone just asked you to do

Complex ideas composed of many small pieces

The details baffle me. I like and use the idea of differentiating between quick jots and longer term topic notes, with each sort of feeding each other in a knowledge ecosystem.

A method of keeping notes that emphasizes their connections and organic growth of knowledge.

Concept Maps

Uses labels, color, connections, and visual proximity to provide richer context for knowledge.

Might end up merging Concepts and Practices since I can’t really tell which is which.

Personal Knowledge Management

hold control and scroll to zoom in and out

this space is getting big

hold the spacebar and click over the background to drag

A probably never-ending attempt to organize and arrange what I’ve come across while trying to keep track of my own brain.

notes on paper should be a reflection of what’s going on inside your mind