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PaperNotebooks

Objective

• how do good practices in non-eletronic PIM like can be translated into eletronic-PIM
  • history of indexing solutions, shortcuts, dating, ...

Warning

• focus is not about the content but how it was produce and what techniques helped to make it of high quality.
  • for example Anne Frank journal, despite it's key historical role and style might not be especially interesting regarding method helping the quality of thought and improving creativity.

Process

1. find famous personnal notebooks
2. distinguish methods used
3. chronological tree of those methods

Resouces

• Notebook (style)
• Historical sketchbooks of note in Sketchbook
• Cornell Notes by Walter Pauk
• History of the book
• Famous notebooks in Inventor's notebook
• Notebook know-how: strategies for the writer's notebook by Aimee Buckner,2005
• famous notebook users
  • Leonardo's journals in Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
  • Darwin's notebooks on geology, transmutation, metaphysical enquiries and reading lists on Darwin Online
  • EWDs and writing by hand of Edsger W. Dijkstra
    • Edsger Dijkstra - Denken Als Discipline (Discipline in Thought), VPRO Television 2001
      • "For myself, the most important thing has been the daily discipline of neatly writing down your thoughts and what you do." ~6min50
      • streaming on Google Video mirror
  • In Praise of Famous Notebooks in Everything And Nothing 2005
• dedicated places and labs
  • Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris (english page)
• related fields
  • tools used in the History of science
  • late discoveries in Cognitive archaeology
  • Using Notebooks to Document and Further History Learning in the Pedagogy section of Becoming Historians
• advances
  • myMoleskine with its printer wizard