@online{prevosTakingNotesEmacs2021,
  title = {Taking Notes with {{Emacs Org}} Mode and Org-Roam},
  author = {Prevos, Peter},
  date = {2021-05-08T00:00:00+00:00},
  url = {https://lucidmanager.org/productivity/taking-notes-with-emacs-org-mode-and-org-roam/},
  urldate = {2022-12-24},
  abstract = {This article describes how to take notes with Emacs and Org Roam. This software helps you to build your second brain in plain text.},
  keywords = {read},
  file = {/home/dominikh/notes/pdfs/prevosTakingNotesEmacs2021.html}
}

Taking notes is an important activity for all creative work. Recording your thoughts and ideas or somebody else’s ideas is a foundational activity whether you write scientific articles, novels or whatever else.

And yet we’ve never learned how to take notes…

The embedded video (too short and superficial to bother adding to the bibliogrpahy) makes the following worthwhile points:

• Write literature notes in own words, to ensure understanding of the ideas
• The most important step: take literature notes and turn them into permanent notes. How do they relate to your thinking, research, ideas etc. Find meaningful connections between what you just learned and what you already know.
• Find keywords for notes. Keywords are about “in which circumstances do I want to stumble upon this note, even if I forget about it”
• Take fleeting notes, i.e. notes of random ideas, on scrap paper or a physical notebook or whatnot, and review these notes at the end of the day, possibly turning them into permanent notes.