collecting/ gathering
on keeping fieldnotes <3
collecting/ gathering
“For every good idea that comes out of you, you need ten good ideas coming into you. And that’s up to you to ensure that you continuously fill yourself up with fresh knowledge and information and impressions so that one thing can come out.” — René Redzepi
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
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When you find something that resonates, its use is not always immediately apparent. A line in a song might be the seed for your next coding project or inspire the title for the book you’re writing. It can be difficult to predict how something that resonates today might be useful in the future.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
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On gathering and collecting information
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
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“The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.” — Goethe
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
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Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll confuse h... See more
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Physical or digital, I think whatever system gets you to look forward to consistently reviewing what you’ve collected (read: forgotten) is the best system.
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
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There are two modes of information discovery: foraging and hunting. Foraging is passive. You don’t have a clear goal; you just wander and scroll until something catches your interest. Hunting is active and purposeful. You know what you’re looking for and are consciously searching for it. A good information diet needs both: Foraging helps us decide
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Keeping a Commonplace Book: Why & How
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how (& why) to start a commonplace book
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