Given certain off-line comments I received in response to my recent post about note-taking, I thought that in order to be as useful as possible to interested readers I ought to write briefly about reference management systems.
So you take lots of notes—you write summaries and compile indices, focusing on your most important topics of interest, [...]
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Notes on Note-taking
By Robert Minto in Organization, Scholarship, StrategyAnn Blair’s article “Note-taking As an Art of Transmission”, has finally kicked me in the direction of explicitly formulating my own method. My method has been developing over the past two years; now, I have finally achieved a level of technical proficiency such that I no longer look back on books and lectures with regret [...]
Tags: academic writing, ann blair, citation index, citations, descriptive comments, excerpts, insights, methodology, notations, note-taking, personal note, short term memory, technical proficiency