Re: [OT] Taking notes
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > > courses. > > Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, narrow-ruled yellow 8.5x11 > pad, Uni-Ball rollerball pen, blue ink. Yellow?!? :-) I do the same, but I also use a short perl script to accept mouse cut+paste blocks to a file; it date stamps each entry. Just type "things.pl", highlight some text somewhere, paste it in with the mouse, and finish with CTRL-D: - snip - #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # ~/devl/perl/things.pl replaces ~/sh/things.sh; datestamps # and separates entries. # # 13Apr2002 s. keeling 0001 replace things.sh # use strict; my ( $outfile, $now ); chomp( $now = qx(date) ); $outfile = qq($ENV{HOME}/dox/things_to_remember.txt); open( THINGS, ">> $outfile" ) || die qq($0: could not open $outfile for append: $!); print THINGS "\n\n" . q( - ) . $now . "\n\n"; while( ) { print THINGS; } close( THINGS ); - snip - -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Taking notes
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:21:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > > courses. > > Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, narrow-ruled yellow 8.5x11 > pad, Uni-Ball rollerball pen, blue ink. Lefties like me get ink or lead all over the sides of our hands when we do that. On a related note, left-handed == right-brained ==> visual, non-linear thinker which is why I find all standard PIMs maddening. I've tried several tools like Concept mapping but they don't account for a visual right-brainer who also has a rigorous mathematical structural concept of the correct -- they just think if you can smear your thoughts all over the place you'll be happy. The thing I wrote myself is making me happy. Any other seriously left-handed people have any insights? I've thought about this a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Taking notes
on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > courses. Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, narrow-ruled yellow 8.5x11 pad, Uni-Ball rollerball pen, blue ink. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Reform three-strikes: stop jailing nonviolent offenders. http://www.amend3strikes.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] Taking notes
Jonathan Matthews wrote: >Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for >courses. > >I'm studying T171 with the Open University (it's a compulsory course on >the way to their BSc in PeeCees), and a lot of the assessment is >writing up what you thought about various resources (websites, reports, >etc) that they throw at you. The important thing is the note-taking >and subsequent writing up - /not/ the opinions you actually express in >the notes. > >So - I'm looking for packages which let me keep a structured record of >what I was looking at, where it was, when I looked, and what my >thoughts were. I've found hnb, but that's about it. > >Any suggestions? Would a custom (v.v.v.v. simple) DTD be an idea? >What emacs packages let me input the notes into a valid XML file >adhering to my simple DTD in a pointy-clicky sort of way? Is this not >the way forward? Try Emacs-wiki. In one (text) file you begin writing your assessments' resources, and then write a (say) LinkedOpinions node linked to each one of them (as easy to write the capitalized words before, and press enter on it). You can obviously link anything to anything, provided it is on your Wiki or has an associated URL. IMHO, it's a better solution than a DTD or other hierarchic structure, due to the flexibility "wiki style editing" gives you. And if you want to structure it in some way to be able to post-process lists, items and other stuff on you notes, you could use some tags (like [IMPORTANT], [CONCLUSION], etc.) to look for them with grep or other standard tools. HTH, -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "UNIX is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has alot of things going on in the background." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Taking notes
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Any suggestions? Would a custom (v.v.v.v. simple) DTD be an idea? What > emacs packages let me input the notes into a valid XML file adhering to > my simple DTD in a pointy-clicky sort of way? Is this not the way > forward? XML is the way to go. I wrote my own client: http://home.comcast.net/~40208.nospam/pim.png with a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. Emacs would probably have been superior, but I don't like emacs. I tried every other PIM-, list-maker, or database-frontend in Debian and gave up and wrote one that works the way I want it. It's great for <1mb structured databases. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Taking notes
Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for courses. I'm studying T171 with the Open University (it's a compulsory course on the way to their BSc in PeeCees), and a lot of the assessment is writing up what you thought about various resources (websites, reports, etc) that they throw at you. The important thing is the note-taking and subsequent writing up - /not/ the opinions you actually express in the notes. So - I'm looking for packages which let me keep a structured record of what I was looking at, where it was, when I looked, and what my thoughts were. I've found hnb, but that's about it. Any suggestions? Would a custom (v.v.v.v. simple) DTD be an idea? What emacs packages let me input the notes into a valid XML file adhering to my simple DTD in a pointy-clicky sort of way? Is this not the way forward? Cheers! jc -- This signature no verb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]