Mostly for work-related minutae, but trying to expand that.
Yes. I keep a stack of clipped together A8 sheets of paper on me at all times (essentially as a “RAM” extension), write a (modified) Bullet Journal, and keep an Obsidian vault with more topic-oriented permanent notes (this is also where book summaries go). I also use Zotero for digital collection management.
Sort of. I’ve tried a few different ideas (Zettelkasten, Bullet Journal, Getting Things Done, Cornell notes, plus some hacked-together monstruosities) for several months at a time. So far nothing stuck for more than a year.
I find it that the problem with memory tends to be retrieving memories, rather than storing them. I.e.: things are in my head, I just… forget that is the case. The exception is permanent topic notes. I write these longform for six-months-in-the-future me.
I may be explaining Scrum for a job interview, and completely forget that the sprint review is a thing. Ask me about the sprint review however, and I can make a cogent case for (or against) the necessity of the dev team being involved (customer interactions are the purview of the project owner! agile methodologies emphasize cutting red tape! or something on those lines).
I use notes as reminders/pointers rather than longform descriptions (adopted from “The Bullet Journal Method”, ch 2 “Events”). This helps with three things:
Not very, still developing habit.
Mostly for work-related minutae, but trying to expand that.
Yes. I keep a stack of clipped together A8 sheets of paper on me at all times (essentially as a “RAM” extension), write a (modified) Bullet Journal, and keep an Obsidian vault with more topic-oriented permanent notes (this is also where book summaries go). I also use Zotero for digital collection management.
Sort of. I’ve tried a few different ideas (Zettelkasten, Bullet Journal, Getting Things Done, Cornell notes, plus some hacked-together monstruosities) for several months at a time. So far nothing stuck for more than a year.
I find it that the problem with memory tends to be retrieving memories, rather than storing them. I.e.: things are in my head, I just… forget that is the case. The exception is permanent topic notes. I write these longform for six-months-in-the-future me.
To expand on 5:
I may be explaining Scrum for a job interview, and completely forget that the sprint review is a thing. Ask me about the sprint review however, and I can make a cogent case for (or against) the necessity of the dev team being involved (customer interactions are the purview of the project owner! agile methodologies emphasize cutting red tape! or something on those lines).
I use notes as reminders/pointers rather than longform descriptions (adopted from “The Bullet Journal Method”, ch 2 “Events”). This helps with three things:
reviewing (looking back on my month),
remembering ideas when they are relevant,
building a big-picture view while reading.