Been thinking about this lately aswell. Here’s some of my meta-notes(feel free to remove)

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I use four colors of pens when doing things on legal pads so I can fill up the entire sheet and each thought has a unique color to it’s neighbors

Four color theorem

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nomenclature

i use “tools for thought” and “personal knowledge management” interchangeably. I think a good working summary is “note taking software with bidirectional links”

When I’m writing notes, I think of them as a log. And logs have lifetimes. Legal pad notes die daily, whiteboard notes mutate, e-notebook notes will die when my tablet does, org mode stuff is hopefully forever, and then notes written in books I own are sacrosanct

system tray integration

I also apply this to my white board.

Microsoft OneNote

- worked well for undergrad classes

quick capture
way ahead of its time, but very Windows centric

desktop dock

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/22125/beginner-geek-getting-started-with-onenote-2010/

Beginner Geek: Getting Started With OneNote 2010

comparison to Apple Notes, released cross-platform in 2012 (mountain lion)

virtual printer

Evernote

heard good things about this and briefly tried it, but found it didn’t work the way my brain does and was way too slow

what do i use tft for?

Simple Note

worked well to quickly capture notes on mobile. my basic workflow was mobile quick capture, then “clean my notes up” ~ once a week from my laptop - buggy syncing - mac app crashed with external monitor :(

note taking to learn new things

Bear

- loved
markdown
 - fast to open/
quick capture
 - good syncing (built on icloud)

started abusing the nested tags to create something approaching

bidirectional links
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learning a new skill, hobby or interest

in a classroom

applying existing ideas to new disciplines, aka “research”

to me it looks like: - taking notes on a bunch of related academic papers, and learning how they tie together - building something novel with those ideas