Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?
I read a good amount of articles every day and whenever I find something useful I note them down digitally. Once a week I go over my notes and filter out the ones I want to retain and look back after a while (let's call them 'important-notes'). My 'important-notes' are filled with 'mistakes-not-to-repeat', 'career-advice', 'motivational-stuff', 'quotes', 'things-experience-taught-me' and so on. When I am starting out on new things (like learning a new framework), or just lacking motivation, or looking to improve productivity I go back to my 'important-notes' and read them over. This has been super helpful for me. I can give a bunch of reasons as to why it's helpful but they all boil down to this: It helps me avoid repeating mistakes, and to avoid stupidity. In theory, it's perfect but I do not execute it well. I do not go back to them every week to filter. I do not read the 'important-notes' often. A lot of times I still make mistakes which I should not because I have clearly written about those in 'important-notes'. Anyone else in similar situation? Do you take notes that you want to go back and read? If yes, what's your model to deal with this? Any tools that you found helpful? Any better solution to the whole idea of 'important-notes' and going back to them? 9 comments on Hacker News.
I read a good amount of articles every day and whenever I find something useful I note them down digitally. Once a week I go over my notes and filter out the ones I want to retain and look back after a while (let's call them 'important-notes'). My 'important-notes' are filled with 'mistakes-not-to-repeat', 'career-advice', 'motivational-stuff', 'quotes', 'things-experience-taught-me' and so on. When I am starting out on new things (like learning a new framework), or just lacking motivation, or looking to improve productivity I go back to my 'important-notes' and read them over. This has been super helpful for me. I can give a bunch of reasons as to why it's helpful but they all boil down to this: It helps me avoid repeating mistakes, and to avoid stupidity. In theory, it's perfect but I do not execute it well. I do not go back to them every week to filter. I do not read the 'important-notes' often. A lot of times I still make mistakes which I should not because I have clearly written about those in 'important-notes'. Anyone else in similar situation? Do you take notes that you want to go back and read? If yes, what's your model to deal with this? Any tools that you found helpful? Any better solution to the whole idea of 'important-notes' and going back to them?
I read a good amount of articles every day and whenever I find something useful I note them down digitally. Once a week I go over my notes and filter out the ones I want to retain and look back after a while (let's call them 'important-notes'). My 'important-notes' are filled with 'mistakes-not-to-repeat', 'career-advice', 'motivational-stuff', 'quotes', 'things-experience-taught-me' and so on. When I am starting out on new things (like learning a new framework), or just lacking motivation, or looking to improve productivity I go back to my 'important-notes' and read them over. This has been super helpful for me. I can give a bunch of reasons as to why it's helpful but they all boil down to this: It helps me avoid repeating mistakes, and to avoid stupidity. In theory, it's perfect but I do not execute it well. I do not go back to them every week to filter. I do not read the 'important-notes' often. A lot of times I still make mistakes which I should not because I have clearly written about those in 'important-notes'. Anyone else in similar situation? Do you take notes that you want to go back and read? If yes, what's your model to deal with this? Any tools that you found helpful? Any better solution to the whole idea of 'important-notes' and going back to them? 9 comments on Hacker News.
I read a good amount of articles every day and whenever I find something useful I note them down digitally. Once a week I go over my notes and filter out the ones I want to retain and look back after a while (let's call them 'important-notes'). My 'important-notes' are filled with 'mistakes-not-to-repeat', 'career-advice', 'motivational-stuff', 'quotes', 'things-experience-taught-me' and so on. When I am starting out on new things (like learning a new framework), or just lacking motivation, or looking to improve productivity I go back to my 'important-notes' and read them over. This has been super helpful for me. I can give a bunch of reasons as to why it's helpful but they all boil down to this: It helps me avoid repeating mistakes, and to avoid stupidity. In theory, it's perfect but I do not execute it well. I do not go back to them every week to filter. I do not read the 'important-notes' often. A lot of times I still make mistakes which I should not because I have clearly written about those in 'important-notes'. Anyone else in similar situation? Do you take notes that you want to go back and read? If yes, what's your model to deal with this? Any tools that you found helpful? Any better solution to the whole idea of 'important-notes' and going back to them?
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