#distill
- Main functions of a note taking tool
- Incubate ideas over time
- raw material for unique interpretations and perspectives
- Create visual artifacts.
- See things to understand them.
- Gives us spatial reasoning and pattern matching
- Form opinons backed up by resarch and intentional thought
- Your notes should be:
- Personal
- Optimized for you
- Not aimed at public presentation
- Informal and Dirty
- Unpolished
- Messy, random, nonsensical, and not aimed at a particular outcome.
- Diverse Mediums
- Images, audio, video, tweets, books, articles, music, diagrams, sketches, code, demos, slides, websites, podcasts, and more…
- Open-ended
- You're always adding to and building your knowledge base.
- Personal
We need to flip our approach to consuming information from fleeting moments of insight to investments in a long future of learning and creation. Browsing the library of your own mind is enourmously different to the generalized documents of strangers.
- Maggie Appleton