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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”

virtual printer

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

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

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 :(

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?

system tray integration

desktop dock

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

in a classroom

learning a new skill, hobby or interest

started abusing the nested tags to create something approaching

bidirectional links
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Bear

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

note taking to learn new things

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

Beginner Geek: Getting Started With OneNote 2010

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

Microsoft OneNote

- worked well for undergrad classes

I also apply this to my white board.

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

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