Comments on: On taking notes

By: Jean Johnson

Jean Johnson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:39:40 +0000

Finally, I know there is someone else besides me who does this with their notes…while my legend isn’t quite the same, I do have specific symbols for my notes:

? Question. I will put initials next to identify the person who should be asked
! Note to self/general information
–> Action Item

By: Cecily

Cecily — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:51 +0000

Gosh, my notes are very disorganised compared with you and very unartistic compared with the linked example.

I jot things down by hand, with no particular symbolisation and don’t routinely transfer them all to anything else – but then I don’t have an iphone or 3g.

Some items send me to our bug logging software, some might become a note on our authors’ wiki or in a comment topic in a help project and others might end up in an email, but it’s a bit random.

So thanks for raising the issue. I might even be able to turn it into one of my objectives.

By: Scott Nesbitt (scottnesbitt 's status on Wednesday, 04-Nov-09 20:46:19 UTC - Identi.ca)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:46:26 +0000

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By: Milan Davidovic

Milan Davidovic — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:49:47 +0000

I like your use of symbols — I’ll have to give that a try.

I find that for anything other than (more or less) straight question-answer discourse, taking notes by hand is easier for me. The goal of my style is to not lock any one item too tightly in a linear flow, making it easier for me to connect ideas that didn’t come out in close chronological proximity.