It was a hobby, not meant to be productive, and I still do it sometimes. It's sort of the middle of the road option that used to be mostly how I engaged with note making highlighting and annotating a dead tree book on a topic of interest, and then moving on with my life once I was done, richer in knowledge but not particularly prone to remembering or using the information gained. I highlight the interesting bits when they strike me, but I'm not reading for a purpose I'm reading for pleasure.
The latter is the least common, but easiest to explain: sometimes I see a big book on an interesting topic and either buy it or put it on my wishlist, and then when I've got a lot of downtime and nothing better to do, or am particularly interested in it, I read it cover-to-cover. They represented on the chart above as "ebooks," "I have a question" and "passive feeds" although in retrospect I should have said "hobby reading" instead of "ebook" there. I generally come at the process of note making from one of three angles. This is not intended to be a guide to "doing things my way" so much as an attempt to explain how and I why I do things, in hopes that seeing the metacognition behind the workflow helps at least one person improve their life in some small way. Of course, everybody always asks what tools and philosophies and methods I use to accomplish this relatively straightforward process of making and using useful notes, so here's my best attempt to write it all down. Doing so made me realize that it's a lot more straightforward to explain if I omit the tools and focus on the process: A picture is actually worth 7,000 words, it turns out. It looked something like this: This is more-or-less accurate despite being six months old and my job changing twice in the meantime, which speaks well for its stability.īut I never had a chance to write out an explanation of how these pieces fit together. Once upon a time, I shared a rough sketch of what my process for active and passive research looked like.
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