A couple days ago I got a query from the person I sometimes refer to as "my first former student" (which means my first advisee to be released into jobdom). Anyway, she wrote me, one of my colleagues (her other advisor), and that colleague's former student to ask how we "take/keep/find notes."
Since I've spent the morning reading and taking notes for the penultimate section of my last chapter, perhaps this photo would have been the best reply:
But that would risk making it seem far less unwieldy than it is. The exchanges that followed made both me and the original question poser a little more interested in how others take notes.
I rarely do the same thing every time I sit down to read an article or a book. Does anyone? Either way, we'd love to hear about it.
