It started with me taking notes while playing RPGs, but turned into a daily journal.
Interesting! Is that because you find that your most creative while playing RPGs? How much detail are in those notes? How often do you find you pause the game to write one (reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke about thinking of a joke at night, he either needs to get up, or convince himself that the joke isn’t that funny).
How often do you text search for ideas? What seems to trigger revisiting an idea?
It started with RPG notes because I was using them to help me keep track of the details. Hand writing kept me engaged. I generally didn’t have to do much pausing.
Later, as I was reading some of my notes it got me that I had a better record of what my fiction al characters did in than my own life. I realized how useful it would be to have a journal.
My level of detail varies. I tend to be more detailed when there are interesting bits than not. It also depends on how tired I am when writing, and when I’ve done it. Most of the time, I write about my day at the end of the day, but sometimes it’s the next day. When I do that, it rarely has the same level of detail.
I think that I reference my notes about every other month or so. I’m not really sure. Usually I’m looking up what I did on a particular day.
Thank you for sharing the details of how your note taking has evolved. It is kind of interesting the whole “we can know a fictional character so well yet feel a stranger to ourselves”.
Critically, it sounds like chronology is the most important part of retrieval for you since it’s a journal, a record of what you did on a given date. I think that’s different to my purposes, because an “idea” could be important at an unknown point in the future so, or never, so I need a different organization and retrieval system than chronology. Different courses for different horses.
Yeah. I also note down ideas. Most of the time it’s just a part of my habitual writing. Since Notability allows me to search, it’s usually not too hard to find.
Recently, a friend asked me a difficult question, which I needed to consider and process before answering. My journal entry for that day included my musings.
I also realize that use it professionally too, when I’m working out a problem, or when I need to make lists. I’m a software engineer, so that’s not uncommon. For a while I was keeping a work journal, but now that’s sort of been subsumed.
I do make dedicated entries on topics too. I have a whole section for a game I run. I often reference those when we play.
Notability isn’t great for linking between notes. If you need that, I’d find another app for sure. If you’re writing out notes that you want to be able to search for later, I’d recommend it. That’s especially true for handwritten notes.
Interesting! Is that because you find that your most creative while playing RPGs? How much detail are in those notes? How often do you find you pause the game to write one (reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke about thinking of a joke at night, he either needs to get up, or convince himself that the joke isn’t that funny).
How often do you text search for ideas? What seems to trigger revisiting an idea?
It started with RPG notes because I was using them to help me keep track of the details. Hand writing kept me engaged. I generally didn’t have to do much pausing.
Later, as I was reading some of my notes it got me that I had a better record of what my fiction al characters did in than my own life. I realized how useful it would be to have a journal.
My level of detail varies. I tend to be more detailed when there are interesting bits than not. It also depends on how tired I am when writing, and when I’ve done it. Most of the time, I write about my day at the end of the day, but sometimes it’s the next day. When I do that, it rarely has the same level of detail.
I think that I reference my notes about every other month or so. I’m not really sure. Usually I’m looking up what I did on a particular day.
Thank you for sharing the details of how your note taking has evolved.
It is kind of interesting the whole “we can know a fictional character so well yet feel a stranger to ourselves”.
Critically, it sounds like chronology is the most important part of retrieval for you since it’s a journal, a record of what you did on a given date. I think that’s different to my purposes, because an “idea” could be important at an unknown point in the future so, or never, so I need a different organization and retrieval system than chronology. Different courses for different horses.
Yeah. I also note down ideas. Most of the time it’s just a part of my habitual writing. Since Notability allows me to search, it’s usually not too hard to find.
Recently, a friend asked me a difficult question, which I needed to consider and process before answering. My journal entry for that day included my musings.
I also realize that use it professionally too, when I’m working out a problem, or when I need to make lists. I’m a software engineer, so that’s not uncommon. For a while I was keeping a work journal, but now that’s sort of been subsumed.
I do make dedicated entries on topics too. I have a whole section for a game I run. I often reference those when we play.
Notability isn’t great for linking between notes. If you need that, I’d find another app for sure. If you’re writing out notes that you want to be able to search for later, I’d recommend it. That’s especially true for handwritten notes.
I’m curious to know what you land on.