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Posted by tightbeam
Sep 5, 2019 at 06:51 PM
This is true, and I’ve used it for that purpose many years ago, but I wonder if the approach would be beneficial to college note-taking. Reducing the essentials of a course to “snippets” that can be organized into a two-column scannable outline *seems* like a good thing.
Paul Korm wrote:
Without going into the “how-to” details, that site suggests that a
>disciplined approach to creating, storing, and distributing snippets of
>“information” in a corporate environment is a good thing. (Makes some
>broad claims about benefits.)
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>But is that something applicable to personal note making / outlining?
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>tightbeam wrote:
>Anyone here use - or have an opinion of - Information Mapping techniques
>>for note-taking / documentation?
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>>https://www.informationmapping.com
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Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 5, 2019 at 08:07 PM
Several centuries ago, when I was in grad school, it was the rage to use decks of Hollerith cards for note taking. One would manually punch the cards (not using the standard mechanical punching machines) in specific locations using the grid printed on those cards. Say, a location would stand for “Philosophy” and other location for “Modern” and maybe a third location for some topic in Modern Philosophy. So, you would take a very long knitting-needle-like object and jiggle it through the deck of cards to grab the “Philosophy” cards. Then in that subset grab the “Modern” cards, etc. This required patience and dexterity. It was a manual process but quite effective when you got the hang of it.
I don’t know if other grad schools had similar processes, it seemed home grown took practice to learn.
No one in their right mind would ever try this in the 21st century. LOL
tightbeam wrote:
> This is true, and I’ve used it for that purpose many years ago, but I
>wonder if the approach would be beneficial to college note-taking.
>Reducing the essentials of a course to “snippets” that can be organized
>into a two-column scannable outline *seems* like a good thing.
Posted by jaslar
Sep 7, 2019 at 06:41 PM
I didn’t even notice that. Thanks. I’ll be more alert in the future.
satis wrote:
Here’s the URL without the tacked-on tracking info:
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>https://qz.com/1701631/how-to-take-better-notes/
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>Wish it had something to do with outliners though!