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Please feel free to update this page with your own stories and suggestions.
Hardware solutions for wearable notetaking can be found at Wearhard.NoteTakingSolutions, while Wearfore.NoteTakingSolutions? gives some reasons why taking notes with a computer is fun and easy.
If you spend most of your time in Emacs, you've probably used it to take your notes down too. Here are some ways to organize that information so that you can add to it and access it quickly.
At the beginning of the semester, each course usually provides syllabi that lay out the general lesson plan. I enter each heading and the expected date of discussion in Outline Mode. Slide presentations are also converted into outlined text and inserted into the appropriate places in the outline. My notes are added as body text, with points and subpoints laid out as even deeper outline levels.
I get a quick overview of the logical structure of the course as well as neatly filed, hierarchical notes. I can hide all the body text and simply look at the headings. I can even structure it like a FAQ, so review is simply a matter of collapsing the tree and answering the questions. Interactive search is easy. Backing up and exporting to other formats is easy as well.
It's one big file, so Remembrance Agent isn't as effective. Also, it would be nice to have anchors you can link to..
records-mode offers a rich set of commands for dealing with notes. It seems to be a descendant of notes-mode.
Automatic indexing of subjects by date. TODO support. Can navigate forward and backward by date as well as by subject.
Not a mode for taking down notes, but rather for retrieving notes that appear to be related. Suggests possibly relevant information. Improved by adding hooks that change the database depending on your context.
http://jaugment.sourceforge.net/
-- SachaChua - 05 Jun 2002 |