Note-Taking Systems

Design Features

Scenarios from Note-taking:

1) state of knowledge. What do I already feel like I know about the material and topics? Sometimes this helps us observe how out cognition and memory work. Introspective.

1.2) augmented agent based: “You already have a bit of a relationship to this topic. It appears in 4 entries … would you like to see?”

2) pause to get a feel for the properties, structure and form of the incoming knowledge

3) what is the state of the field.

4) unity of knowledge: Connections between

5) depending on circumstances create two streams side by side: The external stream and the internal stream.

6) capture key items that create an interface into the current memory of the material. Cooperate and resonate with how human memory works in general and your individual memory works in particular.

7) cycle back to add references to external surfing

Design Features of a practice of note taking: Assume incompleteness, assume return, iterative, cyclical, opportunistic, value the current vantage and cognitive space (you will not be there again in exactly the same way). Forgiving of incompleteness.