Note taking

Fleeting vs permanent notes: start with fleeting notes and then, within a day or two, move what you want to preserve into permanent place.
- Journals are good for former.
- The movement activity will also be a good way to revisit what I write.
- This framework makes it easy to keep writing all the time because I don’t have to think too much at the start.
Notes have to contain actionable ideas. So, I need to think (probably while moving to permanent storage) what context in future would I like to encounter this idea.
- Ideas are the key - that’s what I should be linking etc.
- Yesterday, I was doing things the old way: categorizing notes based on their topics. But what that would lead to is a giant connection of topics but hidden ideas.
Capture essence: I don’t want to capture everything I remember (or maybe that’s okay in fleeting notes). What’s more important is to capture the most important or interesting, but small number of, ideas and where I would like to re-encounter them in future.
So, notes have two purposes:
- Help with processing information: I do this a lot (like what I am doing right now).
- Store content that I may want to search in future. For example, Linux commands. Again, something I do already.
- Store those ideas that aren’t useful right now but may be for my future self.