I surveyed 50 engineers a little while ago on how they take notes. This is what I learned.
Most people's notes have two phases [0]:
1) Jot-down
2) Organize
In the jot-down phase, you write down thoughts and gather any raw resources that are useful to you (code snippets, links, etc.). These notes are messy.
In the organize phase, you pull notes from your jot-down that are worth keeping and refine/categorize them. These become your reference notes.
Usually people use two different tools - one for jot-down and one for organize. This leads to lots of copy-paste and things being more difficult to find later. Working on a tool [1] for fast jot-down and organize in one place,
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[0] over 90% of people surveyed used Apple Notes, Google Keep, or raw text files for their notes.
Most people's notes have two phases [0]:
1) Jot-down
2) Organize
In the jot-down phase, you write down thoughts and gather any raw resources that are useful to you (code snippets, links, etc.). These notes are messy.
In the organize phase, you pull notes from your jot-down that are worth keeping and refine/categorize them. These become your reference notes.
Usually people use two different tools - one for jot-down and one for organize. This leads to lots of copy-paste and things being more difficult to find later. Working on a tool [1] for fast jot-down and organize in one place,
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[0] over 90% of people surveyed used Apple Notes, Google Keep, or raw text files for their notes.
[1] https://bytebase.io