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Category:: tweets Readwise Cortex Futura Andy Matuschak note-taking make-public
Added time:: November 14th, 2021 3:08 PM
Highlights first synced on November 14th, 2021
I keep revisiting Andy Matuschak's thoughts about note-taking as something that "expert thinkers" don't do (will link his full note later). https://t.co/JKU8GB6io6 (View Tweet)
I share the same suspicion Andy has about "People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use" (and do what I can do not fall prey to this myself) https://t.co/aSWlDwot6j (View Tweet)
But is the initial hypothesis correct? Do the most effective thinkers not take notes when reading? https://t.co/hNYQbNKpf4 (View Tweet) note-taking Q-Note But I have been collecting examples of ~famous writers and their note-taking practices (where famous now stands in for expert thinkers). (View Tweet)
Noam Chomsky takes notes (and prefers paper books over digital books because of it)
(Michel Foucault took reading notes, which are now digitized and you can check them out here: Foucault fiches de lecture https://t.co/KmNjYEjyS5 (View Tweet)
Umberto Ecco wrote on index cards. Not to really put him into the same class as the previously mentioned people, but my grandfather, a professor who published extensively about the history of the Christian church in what is now Syria, taught his students how to take notes like he did https://t.co/PW9cSSX32S (View Tweet)
Andy shares that his impression comes from the expert thinkers _he knows_. Is that simply a question of sampling bias? Or is it a question of what counts as note-taking? Is writing in the marginalia of a book note-taking? Or do you need to have a Luhmann-like system to qualify? I don't have answers and I don't want to claim either position for myself.