- Aug 2023
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Notewise, whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
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- May 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaHEgPk0tNM
Rowan Williams quote - not who I thought he was
- Read
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- Reflect
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- Apr 2023
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www.dalekeiger.net www.dalekeiger.net
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He preferred penning poems to typing them, because, he said, “A poem can appear finished just because of the cleanness of the typescript, and I don’t want it to seem finished before it is.” When he typed a poem, he said, he was reading it, but when he wrote a poem by hand he could hear it.
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- Mar 2023
- Feb 2023
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curtismchale.ca curtismchale.ca
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When an idea feels like too much work to write down, you just told yourself it wasn’t valuable enough.
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- Jan 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqjgN-pNDw
When did the switch in commonplace book framing did the idea of "second brain" hit? (This may be the first time I've seen it personally. Does it appear in other places?) Sift through r/commonplace books to see if there are mentions there.
By keeping one's commonplace in an analog form, it forces a greater level of intentionality because it's harder to excerpt material by hand. Doing this requires greater work than arbitrarily excerpting almost everything digitally. Manual provides a higher bar of value and edits out the lower value material.
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genizalab.princeton.edu genizalab.princeton.edu
- Dec 2022
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Writing permanent notes was time consuming as f***. On one side writing them helped me grasp the concepts they described on a deep level. One the other side I think this would have been possible without putting an emphasis on referencing, atomicity, deep linking, etc.
The time it takes to make notes is an important investment. If it's not worth the time, what were you actually doing? Evergreen/permanent notes are only useful if you're going to use them later in some sort of output. Beyond this they may be useful for later search.
But if you're not going to search them or review them, which the writer says they didn't, then what was the point?
Have a reason for taking a note is of supreme importance. Otherwise, you're just collecting scraps...
People who have this problem shouldn't be using digital tools they should be spending even more time writing by hand. This will force them into being more parsimonious.
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- Nov 2022
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xournalpp.github.io xournalpp.github.io
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Work in Progress¶ The HandwritingRecognition plugin uses cloud-based handwriting recogntion to recognize handwritten text from a selection or page layer in a user-specified language.
This HandwritingRecognition plugin is a work-in-progress, but extremely exciting. They ran into some issues using Google's API; broke strokes into batches of 150 which would make reassembling more than a couple sentences a nontrivial problem.
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scrivanolabs.github.io scrivanolabs.github.io
- Oct 2022
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxbl7Iwep4
Lots of levels here to pull apart, but this should be particularly interesting to novices.
Modes of note taking: * note taking for raw information * note taking (or writing) for understanding * note taking for relationships of and between knowledge * note taking for creating proficiency * note taking for productivity
Sung takes the viewpoint that linear note taking isn't as effective as mind mapping and drawing out relationships; in part this is why handwriting is more effective means of note taking compared to typing, particularly as most note taking apps force one into a linear pathway that doesn't mirror the affordances available within handwriting.
This video is definitely more about note taking than note making.
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Handwriting + Zettelkasten
I've used Livescribe pens/paper for note taking (including with audio) before, and they've got OCR software to digital workflows. Or for the paper motivated, one could use their larger post it notes and just stick them to index cards as a substrate for your physical ZK with digitally searchable back ups? Now that I've thought about it and written this out, I may have to try it to see if it's better than my prior handwritten/digital experiments.
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I have been using Apple notes, but began to wonder if I could find an app that supports zettelkasten in digital handwritten form. The closest thing I found is CardNotes however it is underdeveloped imo, and maybe dead?
Someone looking for handwriting apps that allow one to use handwriting in digital contexts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/ydwl32/handwriting_zettelkasten/
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apps.apple.com apps.apple.com
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CardNotes - Zettelkasten Notes 4+ Linkable Handwritten Notes HANG FONG TSE
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another long forgotten manual for students, History and Historical Research (1928) by C.G. Crump of the Public Record Office: ‘Never make a note for future use in such a form ... that even you yourself will not know what it means, when you come across it some months later.’
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/ur5xjv/handwritten_cards_to_a_digital_back_up_workflow/
For those who keep a physical pen and paper system who either want to be a bit on the hybrid side, or just have a digital backup "just in case", I thought I'd share a workflow that I outlined back in December that works reasonably well. (Backups or emergency plans for one's notes are important as evidenced by poet Jean Paul's admonition to his wife before setting off on a trip in 1812: "In the event of a fire, the black-bound excerpts are to be saved first.") It's framed as posting to a website/digital garden, but it works just as well for many of the digital text platforms one might have or consider. For those on other platforms (like iOS) there are some useful suggestions in the comments section. Handwriting My Website (or Zettelkasten) with a Digital Amanuensis
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If he initially wrote hiscards by hand, the vast majority were typewritten with Hebrew words written in blankspaces when required.
While many of Deutsch's cards were initially written by hand, the majority of them are typewritten and included blank spaces for Hebrew words when required.
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- Sep 2022
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www.styluslabs.com www.styluslabs.com
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Write300.app
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- Aug 2022
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Local file Local file
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Während es schon im ersten Jahrzehnt des 20. Jahrhunderts Pläne für eine weitereRationalisierung der Katalogisierung durch die Einführung des Zetteldruck derpreußischen (wissenschaftlichen) Bibliotheken gab, entstand ab 1919 auf der Seiteder öffentlichen Bibliotheken die „deutsche Büchereihandschrift“.Die von Erwin Ackerknecht entworfene Schreibanleitung diente primär dazu,noch handschriftlich geführten Katalogen ein einheitliches, leserliches Schriftbildzu geben. Als Ausgangsschrift wählte er von daher die „Latein-Schreibschrift“,die im Gegensatz zur damals gebräuchlichen Sütterlin-Kurrentschrift leichter zulesen war.
Machine translation (Google):
While there were already plans in the first decade of the 20th century for a further rationalization of cataloging by introducing label printing in the Prussian (academic) libraries, from 1919 the “German library handwriting” was created on the part of the public libraries. The writing instructions designed by Erwin Ackerknecht primarily served to give handwritten catalogs a uniform, legible typeface. He therefore chose the “Latin cursive” as his starting script, which was easier to read than the Sütterlin cursive script that was common at the time.
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Ackerknecht, Erwin: Deutsche Büchereihandschrift: mit 21 Tafeln. - 3. Aufl., Berlin1948.
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www.booklooker.de www.booklooker.de
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Deutsche Büchereihandschrift looks very familiar to me. I've seen this loopy sort of script in many early 20th Century library card catalogs, including many cards at the Library of Congress
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de.wikipedia.org de.wikipedia.org
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theGerman library handwriting style invented by E. Ackerknecht is recommended in order toensure equal handwriting style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Ackerknecht<br /> Influential historian of medicine
<ins datetime="2022-08-24T15:44:48+00:00"> Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht (1 June 1906, in Stettin – 18 November 1988, in Zurich), the historian of medicine, did some library related work, but didn't invent this handwriting style, his father Erwin Julius Ackerknecht did. see: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erwin_Ackerknecht</ins>
What does this handwriting style look like?
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- Jul 2022
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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I bet with the advent of computers and the digitalizing of reference material there was a spike in the amount of verbatum quotes that are used instead of summarizing the thought into your own words.
It's a reasonable assumption that with the rise of digital contexts and the ease of cut and paste that people excerpting or quoting material are more likely to excerpt and quote longer passages because it is now easier to do.
Has anyone done research on showing that this is the case?
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- May 2022
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Local file Local file
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digital, we can supercharge these timelessbenefits with the incredible capabilities of technology—searching,sharing, backups, editing, linking, syncing between devices, andmany others
List of some affordance of digital note taking over handwriting: * search * sharing * backups (copies) * editing * linking (automatic?) * syncing to multiple spaces for ease of use
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- Apr 2022
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www.cultofpedagogy.com www.cultofpedagogy.com
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Studies have shown that students who take notes by hand learn more than those who take notes on a laptop (Mueller & Oppenheimer, 2014; Carter, Greenberg, & Walker, 2017).
Students who take notes by hand learn more than those who do so on a laptop.
Exactly how were these studies laid out? What sorts of revision and follow up were followed in each case? Was it truly an apples to apples comparison?
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- Mar 2022
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Research shows that people who are asked to write on complex topics,instead of being allowed to talk and gesture about them, end up reasoning lessastutely and drawing fewer inferences.
Should active reading, thinking, and annotating also include making gestures as a means of providing more clear reasoning, and drawing better inferences from one's material?
Would gestural movements with a hand or physical writing be helpful in annotation over digital annotation using typing as an input? Is this related to the anecdotal evidence/research of handwriting being a better method of note taking over typing?
Could products like Hypothes.is or Diigo benefit from the use of digital pens on screens as a means of improving learning over using a mouse and a keyboard to highlight and annotate?
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- Feb 2022
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Different independent studies indicate that writing byhand facilitates understanding. In a small but fascinating study, twopsychologists tried to find out if it made a difference if students in alecture took notes by hand or by typing them into their laptops(Mueller and Oppenheimer 2014). They were not able to find anydifference in terms of the number of facts the students were able toremember. But in terms of understanding the content of the lecture,the students who took their notes by hand came out much, muchbetter. After a week, this difference in understanding was still clearlymeasurable.
Mueller and Oppenheimer 2014 indicate that students that took lecture notes (rather than typing them on a laptop) were able to understand the content of a lecture better and that this effect extended the span of a week. It did not show a difference in the number of facts they were able to remember.
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penpub.ink penpub.ink
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Gerben and Brendan Howell created PenPub which connects with a Moleskine/Neo smartpen via bluetooth, turns the lines into an SVG file, uploads that to a static web server, and thereby creates a ‘paper website’ that is a live reflection of your notebook (with a few seconds delay)
- Example page: http://penpub.ink/page38.html
- PenPub code is available at: https://gitlab.com/bhowell/penpub
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- Jan 2022
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journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
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words.jamoe.org words.jamoe.org
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https://words.jamoe.org/handwritten-hqa-notes/
Mostly a review of the prior article with little new.
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- Dec 2021
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Physical mark-making also quickens the memory, which is one reason that handwritten notes are so much easier to recall than their typed equivalents.
Where is the research to back this up? I'm sure it exists.
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- Nov 2021
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www.myscript.com www.myscript.comMyScript1
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archive.nytimes.com archive.nytimes.com
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https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/04/opinion/20090908_opart.html?_r=0
We recognize letters in reading much better by reading the top of letters rather than by reading the bottom of letters.
As a result of this, closing the tops of letters properly is important in writing.
An alternate method of holding one's writing instrument between fore-finter and middle finer with the thumb near the tip can alleviate forearm, wrist, and thumb pain.
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- Sep 2021
- Jul 2021
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cds.cern.ch cds.cern.ch
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Actually reads:
I like the browsing style this should make possible. Intuitively right and potentially user-friendly. But it could be frustrating—how do we know we can get it right? Demo of existing systems? Invaluable tool for services
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journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alfredo Carpineti</span> in Learning To Write By Hand Most Effectively Teaches Reading Skills | IFLScience (<time class='dt-published'>07/10/2021 01:56:58</time>)</cite></small>
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www.iflscience.com www.iflscience.com
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"The main lesson is that even though they were all good at recognizing letters, the writing training was the best at every other measure. And they required less time to get there," lead author Professor Robert Wiley, from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, said in a statement. "With writing, you're getting a stronger representation in your mind that lets you scaffold toward these other types of tasks that don't in any way involve handwriting." Every participant in the study was an adult but the scientists are confident that the same for children. The key, they argue, is that handwriting reinforces what is being learned about the letter, such as the sound, beyond their shape. "The question out there for parents and educators is why should our kids spend any time doing handwriting," explained senior author professor Brenda Rapp, from Johns Hopkins University. "Obviously, you're going to be a better hand-writer if you practice it. But since people are handwriting less then maybe who cares? The real question is: Are there other benefits to handwriting that have to do with reading and spelling and understanding? We find there most definitely are."
Handwriting (as opposed to typing) has been shown to improve the speed at which one learns alphabets.
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/writing-by-hand-most-effectively-increases-reading-skills/
Is the effect also seen in other types of learning? What about reading and taking notes by hand versus typing them out?
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- Oct 2020
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myscript.com myscript.com
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MyScript MathPad
This looks like something I could integrate into my workflow.
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- Mar 2020
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github.com github.com
- Jul 2019
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www.understood.org www.understood.org
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In Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf talks about how technology has led to more skimming rather than reading slowly and carefully. She talks about the benefits of “cognitive patience.” And she reminds us that reading quickly isn’t what makes someone a good reader.
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- Mar 2017
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blogs.office.com blogs.office.com
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I just think this is a cool feature. MS does some really cool things with handwriting recognition.
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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paraph
An additional flourish on the signature, to make it more distinct and personal. I've been pretty lost for the past 5 pages, but I do like this signature metaphor. We sign things nearly as often as people in the 20th Century did, but we've gotten a lot sloppier thanks to shoddy e-signing on credit card machines. Still, I can look at my signatures and identify them as mine, even though there's no master-signature for me to compare them against. There's a scene in the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley where the bank investigating the disappearance of Tom Ripley does a signature analysis of his recent checks, but they underestimate how long Dickey's been impersonating Tom, so that they're comparing those checks against earlier forgeries.
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- Jul 2015
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