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How and why do you take notes? (beehaw.org)

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Kind of a broad question. I wonder why people take notes - Is it for studies or learning? Is it just to remember things? Is it to make your own map of your knowledge? Is it because you just want a place to vent out your feelings into the void?

What do you use to accomplish that? App? Paper? A chat room?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For work, it's really about capturing what my customer(s) are talking about in case I have follow ups myself and some basic CYA in case someone wants to come back and complain.

For my personal life, it's filing some stuff away for future use, sometimes it's databases/inventories of my hobbies (like Transformers collecting) or random scratch comparisons when we were looking at daycares for the little one.

I used to have a big Excel spreadsheet with a list of tables but I've moved both my work and personal note taking over to notion.so. I've got a solid workflow that lets me track to-dos, manage my team, and organize my notes where possible and I've come to really like it. At work, we're also looking into Microsoft Loop for something already built into our Office subscription but it's still in preview and not as fleshed out like Notion.