Thread by @EleanorKonik

Transitioning from a stay at home mom w/ a hobbyist scifi/fantasy #worldbuilding research newsletter to someone w/ a full time job, a part time job, & a moderately popular tech newsletter has been interesting in terms of the impact it's had on my notes process.

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Now that I'm busier, I still read & highlight stuff from my "easy" passive feeds, like the ones that I see in Reader and don't rely on any cleanup. But I've basically stopped casually reading the high-noise-to-signal feeds like AskHistorians that I mostly kept track of for fun.

In some ways that means I take fewer notes, and it's true I do a lot less of the fun stuff I really enjoy, i.e. less actual learning, but in some ways it means I take more notes -- of the boring stuff I don't like, for example lists of what I need to do in a given day.

I'm in something a lot closer to triage mode / minimum viable product mode, and that means cutting a lot of corners in terms of taking notes. Efficiency is key when you're as busy as I am right now, and there's a lot more complex prioritization of goals and deadlines going on.

Tasks lists are kind of the one thing that I do like outliners for, although I wish I could figure out a good way to have my "default view" be "yesterday, today, and tomorrow" in a nice split screen of that for easier referencing of the stuff from yesterday.

I have a strong preference for analog notebooks for most meeting notes & daily tasks lists. If it's open on my desk from yesterday, I will actually see it today, but this works less well when I'm traveling to and from locations & closing (or forgetting!) the physical notebook.

@tana_inc is working reasonably well for me so far as a dumping ground so far, but I am not using it to its full capabilities; I could just as easily do what I'm doing in any app that gives me folding lists with tags, backlinks, decent search & easy flipping between task states.

I do like it more than Notion for depositing work-related notes, but I'm even less familiar with Notion than Tana, & Tana had a smoother onboarding process for me because, similar to @obsdmd I was able to join a community of fellow users & get quick answers.

Community is key.