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On keeping sketchbooks

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Re: On keeping sketchbooks

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Post by denno020 »

eternityforest wrote: post #9
denno020 wrote: post #6

I feel like hand written notes are great for people who are artistic.. I would love to take hand written notes, and be able to connect dots with lines on a page, draw diagrams, doodle etc, but I'm just so not creative enough. I need structure. I need my lines to be perfectly aligned and spaced, I want to be able to search for things that I would have written down, because I don't remember which notebook its in. I adm…

Yeah, it's just such a cool image, the person with the notebook at the meeting, he's probably doing something cool, with the same media that a lot of my favorite works of art and technical things probably started on. He's got his job figured out so well it makes sense to have dedicated accessories and actually carry them around. He's a master of his tools, he must be really passionate about what he's doing(Or else he…

I agree! I love hand writing, I love the feel of pen in hand, and hand on paper, but it's so time consuming and inefficient for me, that it's not something I ever do

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Post by dallas »

kwstas wrote: post #3

Posts like these make me wish I could be consistant and keep a single notebook until its done and then move to the next. I always end up starting a project or scibbling down a thought on random scraps of paper. I try to organize and consolidate but really there is not much point after the fact since, if the note is made, transfering it is just busywork. I leaned into it last couple of years, I have a 2 corkboards (a…

I wouldn't sweat it... it's customary to start a new laboratory notebook for each project.

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Post by steno132 »

I’ve tried notebooks but wikis like Confluence are much better.

They force you to structure your thoughts in a way that others can understand.

Notebooks are extremely unorganized and un-understandable after a few days.

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Post by freedude »

denno020 wrote: post #6

I feel like hand written notes are great for people who are artistic.. I would love to take hand written notes, and be able to connect dots with lines on a page, draw diagrams, doodle etc, but I'm just so not creative enough. I need structure. I need my lines to be perfectly aligned and spaced, I want to be able to search for things that I would have written down, because I don't remember which notebook its in. I adm…

I have found I remember my notes better when they are handwritten. Even when they are messy and semi-legible.

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Post by fragmede »

freedude wrote: post #15
denno020 wrote: post #6

I feel like hand written notes are great for people who are artistic.. I would love to take hand written notes, and be able to connect dots with lines on a page, draw diagrams, doodle etc, but I'm just so not creative enough. I need structure. I need my lines to be perfectly aligned and spaced, I want to be able to search for things that I would have written down, because I don't remember which notebook its in. I adm…

I have found I remember my notes better when they are handwritten. Even when they are messy and semi-legible.

the very act of writing it down by hand helps commit the contents to long term memory

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Post by fragmede »

denno020 wrote: post #6

I feel like hand written notes are great for people who are artistic.. I would love to take hand written notes, and be able to connect dots with lines on a page, draw diagrams, doodle etc, but I'm just so not creative enough. I need structure. I need my lines to be perfectly aligned and spaced, I want to be able to search for things that I would have written down, because I don't remember which notebook its in. I adm…

that's a very self limiting belief. the first step to getting good at something is being bad at something. live outside the lines a little. computerized notes encourages clean crisp digital lines, pen on paper evokes analog flowing lines of freedom.
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