Masters in creative notation skills: Luhmann and Da Vinci

Note-taking is an ancient activity that has been practiced for thousands of years in different cultures, languages and writing systems. It's different from just writing things down. For our purposes, jotting down is: Personal, informal, fast and messy: notes are not optimized for public consumption, but for personal use, like a leather notebook that you keep in your backpack. Open-ended and never finished: “Taking notes” is a continuous and generative process, where you can come up with ideas without having an explicit goal in mind. Low Friction: Notes impose low quality and polishing standards, which means they are easy ...