How do you take notes?
That’s a serious question, because I’m trying to find a way to manage a bunch of notes that I’m taking on various topics as I’m trying to hone my Perl coding skills. (Such as they are.)
In college, I was a copious note-taker. In “easy” classes, I rarely consulted my notes after taking them. The mere act of writing down the information helped me remember it. In more difficult classes, I’d type my notes up to make reference cards in QuarkXPress and then re-read the notes before tests.
I rarely write anything on paper these days, so I’ve been trying to find a good, open source tool that allows me to manage my notes in an effective fashion. So far, I haven’t found the perfect tool. I may get around to writing it myself, but that’s after I write a few other apps that I would like to use…
I’ve tried a few apps that are good for a few things. I liked KnowIt for doing interviews. It was a handy app that made it easy to keep track of interviews when I was working on stories for NewsFactor. Not so fond of it for doing actual notes on Perl. Also, I just built the latest version on SUSE 9.2 and it doesn’t seem to want to allow text input…
Suggestions, comments?
