\[ **BT: [[knowledge|personal knowledge management]]** ] --- # note-taking > [[‘For it would be to little Purpose to spend our Time in Reading of Books, if we could not apply what we read to our Use.’|‘So that when we extract any Thing out of an Author which is like to be of future Use, we may be able to find it without any Trouble. For it would be to little Purpose to spend our Time in Reading of Books, if we could not apply what we read to our Use.’]][^1] [[The way you organise your data also affects your thinking.]][^2] [[Thinking about a note as ‘evergreen‘ can lead the note-taker into an epistemic trap—the belief any thought or idea is an unshakeable, unimprovable fact.]].[^3] - see also: - [[commonplace books]] - [[Goutor’s card-file system of note-taking]] - [[Zettelkasten]] - ↬ [‘The Konik method for making notes’](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/the-konik-method-for-making-notes/) - ↬ [Eleanor’s Notes](https://publish.obsidian.md/eleanorkonik/00+Meta/03+Guidance/Welcome) (Eleanor Konik’s example vault) ## note-taking and neurodiversity - ↬ [‘How to get started with Obsidian: a guide for autistics & ADHD-ers’](https://www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/obsidian-guide/) - ↬ [‘How I built a “wikipedia” of my brain’](https://www.autisticasfxxk.com/blog/wikipedia-brain/) - ↬ [‘Object impermanence in ADHD affects preference for top level structures’](https://notes.bryanjenks.dev/Z/Object+impermanence+in+ADHD+affects+preference+for+top+level+structures) [^1]: Jean Le Clerc, ‘Monsieur Le Clerc’s Character of Mr. Lock’s Method, with His Advice About the Use of Common-Places’, in *[[Locke, New Method of Making Common-Place-Books, 1706|A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books ; Written by the Late Learned Mr. John Lock, Author of the Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. Translated from the French. To Which Is Added Something from Monsieur Le Clerc, Relating to the Same Subject. A Treatise Necessary for All Gentlemen, Especially Students of Divinity, Physick, and Law.]]*, unknown translator (J. Greenwood, 1706), p. ii. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/embed/gu_newmethodmaki00lock>. [^2]: Alex Galarza, ‘[[Galarza, ‘Zotero in the Archives’, 2011|Zotero in the Archives]]’, GradHacker, 2011, accessed 17 December 2023, <http://www.gradhacker.org/2011/08/03/zotero-in-the-archives/>. [^3]: a_bahez \[pseud.], ‘A brutalist approach to knowledge management in Obsidian’, Obsidian Forum, May 2023, https://forum.obsidian.md/t/a-brutalist-approach-to-knowledge-management-in-obsidian/60553.