Net Paper 1 Notes

[Wynellewe Gr]

From 2006 to 2016, I wanted to be the kind of person who carried a paper notebook around. I bought nice notebooks and consistently got halfway through each one before abandoning it and giving up again.

The only consistent structure is time. Notes go forward in time. You write the date span of notebooks on the cover, and the date of notes on the pages, and keep the notebooks in order. Try to keep all notes from a certain point in time in the same notebook.

Summarize topics when you finish notebooks, never when you start. Add a list of topics to the front cover (inside or outside), and then after a year, summarize the topics from all notebooks in another notebook.

I'm looking for an app that I can make notes and password protect some of them. I'm trying to migrate from an app called "StyleNote Pro" With which I can take notes about things like "Health", " Movies", "Restaurants" and "Sign-On Information" and "Museums". I can list "Museums" and then have "sub-notes with info about each museum. I want to be able to password protect the "Sign-On Information" but not info about "Museums". I found "Paper" and thought that might do it. But, after uploading lots of notes I discovered that I can't edit them on a mobile device. Does anyone know if Dropbox has something that would work or of any other app that would work?

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I know you can add a view to a project for an online google doc, but having one place to centralize all info about a project, tasks and notes/documents, is the missing link for us. In ClickUp, you can create a doc (similar to a Dropbox Paper doc or Evernote note) anywhere - in a project, or even within a task/row. This allows you to have long form notes, images, formatting etc, and you can share the doc with other internal users and even external users by generating a public link much like google docs or evernote.

While paperpile provides a nice interface to add notes / labels in the main app window, it is necessary to go to the paperpile app window to do it. Often when we are reading a paper I like to add labels and add a comment to it after going to the paperpile button. Often I keep a separate paperpile window open side by side to do this as soon as the paper is added to paperpile but that takes up some valuable screen real estate. It would be nice if the add to paperpile button offers a facility to label the paper or add a comment to the paper that will get linked with the added paper without having to visit the main paperpile app window. Alternatively a sidebar which consists of the recently added papers can be considered where the comments / labels can be added.

My 2c is that the Pocket interface shown above would be a better way of adding Labels within the Paperpile app too. It looks similar to the way bookmark tags are added in Firefox i.e. a comma-separated list with autocompletion. In contrast to a single keyboard shortcut or click and then immediately typing to add a set of labels, at the moment in Paperpile for each one in turn I have to:

However, digital note making, I find, is vastly superior in a digital format. This includes the process of combining, organizing, and rearranging information. Essentially, making better notes from lesser notes.

As a result, I capture much of my thinking by writing it on paper, but I always transfer it into my digital Seedbox for further reference as usage. I also find this transference is, itself, valuable, as it creates an opportunity to reassess what I wrote. I find those multiple points of contact very helpful for remembering information.

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Throughout my life I've always been a productivity tool junkie and early adopter. I could not imagine my life without tools like Cronometer, Evernote, Sleep Cycle, TripIt, Wunderlist and YNAB to name a few.

Oftentimes I have been the one leading the charge in the workplace for electronic note-taking, advocating that we should all take notes electronically and share them with each other. In my mind, the outcome has always been that knowledge is never lost and instead made available for everyone that could get value from it. I've relentlessly battled with people I work with to take electronic notes and share them. I've had some limited success.

Upon joining Google, I was so excited to find that electronic note taking seems to be the norm. At last! I was about to experience the panacea! In fact, at Google it's often the case that there is one shared notes document created for the meeting that everyone in the meeting can edit live at the same time using the fantastic real-time collaboration features of Gsuite. Sadly my dream did not take into account everything that electronic note-taking brings.

The first ill-effect of electronic, always shared notes I noticed was that I became less engaged in meetings. I felt less pressured to keep my own notes and when others were contributing everything that needed to be recorded right before my very eyes it was much harder to stay focused.

I also noticed that my retention of information seemed to be poorer than I recalled. It turns out that there's a lot of evidence that says taking notes has a strong correlation with information retention. Not only that, but taking notes on paper has been proven to be more beneficial for information retention than typed notes on a laptop. The theory is that when we take notes by hand, we're forced to summarize, paraphrase and map out concepts. These extra steps of processing improve learning and retention. If you want to read it, here's the full study published by The Association for Psychological Science.

One thing about my dream did come true and it was fantastic: every meeting was meticulously documented and available as an archive that could be referenced by anyone in the organization who might need it. This is invaluable for people that take over jobs of others or for those of us in sales who take over the management customer relationships from our colleagues. But - and sadly there is a but - I would hypothesize that 90% or more of the notes that are captured and shared electronically are never referred to again. I have no data on this (I'd love to see some!) but through my own anecdotal use of electronic notes and my observations this is where my thinking is at.

The other challenge with all these notes is that you now have electronic assets that need to be stored and organized. Getting a team to agree on and stick to a naming convention, folder hierarchy and cleanup process is extremely difficult. Is this actually important with the power of search we have today? I can't say but it's worth noting ;)

So, I decided to go back to paper notes. To get myself feeling really good about taking paper notes again I decided to buy myself some quality writing implements. I invested in a fountain pen from Cross and a decent quality Moleskine notebook (fear not fellow vegans - it's not actually made of out moles' skins!). This has turned out to be a great decision. I really love the way the fountain pen glides across the high quality paper and find writing for long periods of time far easier due to the lower pressure you use to grip the pen.

Since making this change, I find that all the negative effects of electronic note-taking have subsided. I am far more present in meetings - I especially make sure to take my notebook to those larger, one-to-many meetings as tasking myself with recording the salient points on paper helps me to stay focused. I've also found I retain more information. I have no way of measuring this but I can tell you that it feels like I magically know more about what's going on in the world of work around me.

My notes are no longer searchable, but I've found that's a small price to pay. They're stored chronologically and so far I've found that I only refer to the most recent notes most frequently. I seem to be doing pretty well without an enormous archive that requires the power of the best search technology on the planet.

Currently I'm experimenting with not taking my laptop to meetings so as to avoid all distractions and stay 100% focused on the people in the room. This has worked well for the most part but there have been a couple of occasions when I didn't foresee the need to pull up a piece of reference material or jump on a screen sharing session with somebody. Going forward if I do decide to take my laptop with me, the lid will be closed unless specifically required and all notes will be taken by hand.

And finally, a friendly tip of the hat to Evernote who have served me so well for so long. I'm not abandoning you completely. Your tool has so many other use cases for storing reference material or being a place to take a quick note when you have one have one hand free and your phone. I'll always have some form of scratch space and reference material in an electronic document store.

I'd love to hear from you about your experiences with paper or electronic notes. What works best for you? Do you have any cool tricks, equipment you like or other funky things I should know as a new longhand convert?

I rarely find modern research papers (on mathematics) that are less than 5 pages long. However, recently I came across a couple of mathematical research papers from the 1960/1970's that were very short (only 2-4 pages long). The authors of both papers solved very specific problems, and stopped writing (I guess) as soon as they were done. This made me realize that I very much like short papers! When possible, I will strive to do the same with my own future papers.

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