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Ok, grammar nazi alert. Who uses the word academical? I had to google it just to confirm it is indeed a word, albeit a rarely used one that is indistinguishable from the simpler, and in my opinion, the proper word, “academic”. A bit like saying “that’s nonsensical” vs “that’s nonsense’. https://wikidiff.com/academic/academical
Ok, grammar nazi alert. Who uses the word academical? I had to google it just to confirm it is indeed a word, albeit a rarely used one that is indistinguishable from the simpler, and in my opinion, the proper word, “academic”. A bit like saying “that’s nonsensical” vs “that’s nonsense’. https://wikidiff.com/academic/academical
Why be so polemical?
Looks awesome but iPad-only? Come on.
I am more and more reluctant to use any note taking app. Ideally, notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee. I switched to using plaintext files, and do not look back. The only thing one needs is to have a clear workflow to make sure notes remain accessible and useful. I like the Zettelkasten method for this (see eg https://zettelk…
Personal opinion : I think this is not the right way to look at knowledge. What you think as "knowledge" today will only be data for algorithms in 10 years. Some knowledge today won't be useful in 5, 10 o 20 years from now.
The best way to validate knowledge is to share it and review it with peers as quickly as possible. Ideally, you would make your notes public and they would be easily findable by anyone, so anyone can continue your work at anytime.
Note taking for long term retrieval doesn't make sense in a world of internet and machine learning. In the future, you will just enter a question in a text box and algorithms will search inside billions of documents, deduce facts and write an essay to answer your question.
To me, note taking only makes sense for very short term "todo", or when to listening to someone speak. "Note taking" when reading a book is called "annotating", and they are training data for ML algorithms (not for your brain)
Ok, grammar nazi alert. Who uses the word academical? I had to google it just to confirm it is indeed a word, albeit a rarely used one that is indistinguishable from the simpler, and in my opinion, the proper word, “academic”. A bit like saying “that’s nonsensical” vs “that’s nonsense’. https://wikidiff.com/academic/academical
maybe a non-native english speaker
I am more and more reluctant to use any note taking app. Ideally, notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee. I switched to using plaintext files, and do not look back. The only thing one needs is to have a clear workflow to make sure notes remain accessible and useful. I like the Zettelkasten method for this (see eg https://zettelk…
> Ideally, notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. Personal opinion : I think this is not the right way to look at knowledge. What you think as "knowledge" today will only be data for algorithms in 10 years. Some knowledge today won't be useful in 5, 10 o 20 years from now. The best way to validate knowledge is to share it and review it with peers as quickly as possibl…
That is a narrow view of the reasons people take notes on books. One might want to save one's personal impressions of a piece of fiction, ideas about superficially unrelated concepts that suggest themselves, etc.
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maybe a non-native english speaker
Probably. The irony is palpableical. Reminds me of this article I read recently. I could understand it, but it was like reading a foreign language https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedigitalwise.com/2020/03/14/a... .
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> Ideally, notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. Personal opinion : I think this is not the right way to look at knowledge. What you think as "knowledge" today will only be data for algorithms in 10 years. Some knowledge today won't be useful in 5, 10 o 20 years from now. The best way to validate knowledge is to share it and review it with peers as quickly as possibl…
> Note taking for long term retrieval doesn't make sense in a world of internet and machine learning. In the future, you will just enter a question in a text box and algorithms will search inside billions of documents, deduce facts and write an essay to answer your question. That is a narrow view of the reasons people take notes on books. One might want to save one's personal impressions of a piece of fiction, ideas…
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Probably. The irony is palpableical. Reminds me of this article I read recently. I could understand it, but it was like reading a foreign language https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedigitalwise.com/2020/03/14/a... .
This is fantastical. What's the deal with the writing? Right now by bots for bots?