A note on note-taking

Yes, I admit, I take notes. Being a geek-of-all-trades I read a lot of books at the same time on different subjects and my blogroll is so huge, that the next chunk of feeds is coming in while I’m still halfway busy reading.

The fun is in the reading, but especially in gathering the information. The world is full of interesting information, so I write down everything I read to read it over after a while and to recall it when necessary, or simply just to brag on being a know-all, a polymath or, just a geek.

My favorite means of note-taking is the classical way: making notes in a note-book (of course: a moleskine).

But, since I spend a lot of time @computer I am also open to digital ways of note-taking.

At first Google’s Notebook appeared to be the thing. Then I tried Tiddlywiki, which was a non-linear way of note-taking. Here is mine, but it hasn’t been updated for a very long time. Incidently, you can only use it from a USB-drive.

Tiddlywiki brought me back to a system I hadn’t been using for years: Mind-Mapping. I prefer FreeMind, that runs also from my USB drive.

And now there is Evernote.

I found it reading Lifehacker, that great blog on everything geek. So I signed up to give it a try. It promises to sync with every other way of note-taking, including my horrible handwriting 🙂