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rambling abt my notetaking methods as someone with memory problems for @divorceblogger

i am not an organised person by nature, but in my apartment Everything Must Have Its Designated Place, and that place must be the most intuitive place i will look for something — keys Must be hanging by door, bc if i leave my keys literally anywhere else (coat pocket, bag) i will NOT remember and then i will not be able to lock my door & leave for the day. the goal is work with my brain, not against it. things should be in the most intuitive place possible, and if they can’t be, i should “leave a trail of breadcrumbs” in order to help myself find what i KNOW i will forget. this is also a strategy i apply to my world of Concepts and IdeasTM.

previously, i was organising my notes into a google doc where each entry was dedicated to a single book/chapter/essay, with (1) a summary of the text, (2) relevant quotations transcribed & cited, (3) my own thoughts responding to the material, and (4) other works in the bibliography that i should check out.

This presented several problems: google doc quickly became massive an unwieldy for a 2-year research project & v laggy

lots of closely related ideas existed in isolation bc it was organised by-book instead of concept-first

couldn’t remember where to find shite bc i would have to recall the exact book the idea was from to find it (BAD for the “trail of breadcrumbs” approach)

very linear process — read & summarised one text, moved on to the next. not letting ideas “accumulate“ (build upon each other) bc it was difficult to search/constantly have to refresh myself on notes i’d made six months to a year ago

~late 2021 or early 2022, this talk is what rly sold me on adopting obsidian. i started using obsidian as my primary notetaking tool, specifically for its ability to hyperlink between concepts & display those connections in graph view (picture above). it solved the problems above with the added benefits of being Not Google & being able to sync to my phone/ipad/laptop (via icloud).

now my process looks like:

Step One: Read the material in its entirety while highlighting and making notes in the margins

by entirety I mean like full article, full chapter. if it is a full book, this is going to take multiple sittings bc i only have the cognitive stamina to absorb one chapter at a time. trying to push thru mental fatigue will exacerbate memory problems into a self-fulfilling spiral. the highlighting & annotating is absolutely essential bc it lets me talk back to the book while reading, without the cognitive fatigue/loss of momentum of stopping read to type up notes, etc.

Step Two: Go thru the material again from the beginning, this time transcribing important quotations into a note

somehow people have gotten zotero to talk to their obsidian by tbqh i haven’t bothered bc i’m fairly fast at writing my citations, and the plugins rabbit hole seems like a massive upfront time investment to me.

Step Three: talk back to the material, write my own thoughts & summaries, make connections with other works/ideas

having obsidian as this big repository of my thoughts on previous books i’ve read, previous movies I’ve seen, concepts and defintions from essays, etc makes really easy for me to start writing a new note with my thoughts about something and just go “okay, I’ll put this concept in [[ square brackets ]] so it can link to my note with all my info on that subject rather than rooting thru one million notebooks or folders of misc notes and projects to find what I’d already written abt that subject”

Step Four: Break the material into smaller units of information

i breakdown/separate out my note on a single book/essay into several smaller interlinked notes abt the concepts covered. that way the information lives (with correct bibliographical citation) in a note titled with the concept, and then that note can get added to incrementally with each new book read. this allows my notes to be organised concept-first rather than book-first.

this — ESPECIALLY the part where i connect the notes to other notes — is a rly important part of the process bc it is the “leaving myself a trail of breadcrumbs” to be able to remind myself of concepts/ideas/texts i may have already encountered that feature similar ideas. if i am wondering if i’ve previously written anything on “regicide” i can click on the note called “regicide” and discover i’d written abt macbeth AND hamlet but not agamemnon and leave a note saying “come back to this and connect it to yr other ideas abt regicide as a form of [[patricide]] in [[agamemnon]]”.

Step Five: leave yrself “on ramps” to revisit notes as new concepts are added and connected

i can’t remember where i got this advice, but it was when you are writing more than can be achieved in a single sitting, leave yourself an “on ramp” before you finish for the day. like if i am coming back to something, maybe it’s not the next day but a whole week later. it is a lot more helpful if i open up a note i was working on and see “REMEMBER: YOU WANTED TO LOOK UP THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORDS FOR THREAD AND FATE TO SEE IF THERE IS A CONNECTION”

do not get caught up in “finishing” a note bc notes will be every-accumulating. work on something for as long as it serves you. if the amount of information is overwhelming, it probably needs to be broken down again into smaller concepts that can be hyperlinked together.

i think that covers most of it but i might come back to this later if there’s anything important i’ve forgotten. oh, yeah, also i love Umberto Eco’s How to Write a Thesis, but that’s less important if yr note writing a thesis, just trying to track info across many different texts for yr own purposes.

[hanndigo]

I’m tempted to rebuild my Lego Millennium Falcon.

[itmustbelovex3]

Danie. Christian. Writer. Side-blog.

Harry Potter. Fairy Tales. Rainy Days.

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[skeleshancreative]

“Surprise, my tenebrous overlord! Ghosts and you might die is my middle name.”

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It's well past time for some Navposting on main, so here's my first Gideon cosplay!

Enormous thanks to the Gideon cosplayer of all time, @gideoncav, who put me in skull paint (as Harrow!!!!!) and provided my wig and 90% of my cavalier accessories. You're a killer partner in crime cosplay and I'm lucky to create with you!

Photo by @/athanephotography on IG & TT

[eljeebee]

I finally moved my family trees (for online viewing) in the new Plum Tree App!

I've also updated the links in my navpost!

Will also add a family tree for The Hatcher if Tori ever plans on starting a family (LOL)

[honkowo]

was updating the navpost 2 include new tags for my freaks & man did tumblr mobile NOT like that lmao

[ajaegerpilot]

ngl i love how in video games and animated media a switch has suddenly flipped and there's been a boom in the Buff Woman characters. even to a lesser extent in movies (e.g., some of the women in the wonder woman movies). the 16 yo me drawing buff female characters is gratified.

[popkas]

Minor update

So I realized that a lot of tumblr users are viewing through mobile and therefore can’t see my blog layout with the navigation bar.  So I copy-pasted my navigation bar html into its own page then linked that in the mobile description of the blog.  Clicking that takes you to a mostly-acceptable-looking version of the navigation with all the links to the different tags.  The alternative solution was making a pinned post but that would appear on desktop too and it’d be redundant.  Please let me know if the mobile navpost isn’t clickable or anything like that.

By the way, I have more Pokemon content happening over at my main blog but it’s too personal and dumb and disorganized so I don’t want it on Popkas.  I’m doing a run of Leaf Green in which I summon forgotten memories and turn them into new gijinka designs.  If you care about that kind of thing you can find it here.

(on the survey I posted, which still accepts new submissions if you wanted to do that, interest in my gijinka nonsense was about middling.  Which is better than expected because it benefits nobody but me, lol)

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spent my morning reading Brian Baker’s “Gramophone, Telephone, Radio, Spy: Mediation and Espionage” in Randal Rogers’ Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. might just be my platonic ideal of an academic essay, not necessarily for the strength of its writing but bc it manages to cram a half dozen things i am Insane abt into one chapter. ghosts!! gender!! tape manipulation!! espionage!! weird interpersonal power dynamics!! theatre!!

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meta asks: 2, 25. also going pvp mode to ask about 5

2: Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project I’M MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO FINISHING. no, for real though, i thought i would have this finished back in november, but like. work bullshit has me hanging on by a thread. (it’s the exact same as when u were here in octobre, they don’t get their projects in order enough in advance so everything turns into a like six-week crunch). i just want ppl to read it! i know it’s all gonna get thrown out as non-canonical when s3 comes so i am rly rly trying to get it done before then & to put it to rest.

25: What part of writing is the most fun? probably getting to talk to u! like when im like what is the most diabolical thing i could possibly do? and yr there being like “do you imagine daniel’s ex-wives worry abt keeping prescription painkillers in the home when recovery from surgery?” and im like oh boy i do now! and then spiral off thinking abt how he fails at a lot of carework tasks specifically. (daniel is like 10% Louis Ironson-coded, to me. not a lot, but a little. self-righteous bullshit yapper. intergenerational trauma genocide survivors guilt. a kind of pathetic but im a lil birthday boy rizz that means ppl out of his league keep giving him chances)

5: What character that you’re writing do you most identify with? the disordered substance use :)

jk but also fr. honestly, i try to find at least 1 thing that i share with every character. idk how to write fiction so im just winging it by pretending im doing my prep work as an actor — in every scene im like okay im preparing to play the role of alice here so i need to to know her goals, her tactics, etc. in the same scene what are daniel’s goals, daniel’s tactics? and i think some ppl are like “why would a person do such a thing that is very clearly detrimental to their well-being?” but to me, impulsively tanking yr life makes absolute 100% perfect sense. it satisfies a need not being met elsewhere! if im most like anyone, its probably daniel, bc we are both afraid of being too much like our own dads & overcorrect for it in ways that are equal unhelpful lmao

[popkas]

Part one!  I’ll add the big navpost later, but for now if you like my work you should check out my webcomic Laserwing and the LPs I do with Josh the Boyfriend over at Hundera.

[popkas]

So that’s the end of that!  Navposts coming some other time.  Here’s some links:

http://laserwing.tumblr.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/Hundera/

[mzwalsh-blog]

Little help how you can improve your English :) in a short time. 

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tagged by @saintundying!

last song: “dream job” by yard act (at the time of first sitting down to write this) & “yardbird suite” by charlie parker atm! more broadly, i’ve been enjoying a lot of billie holiday & prince’s soundtrack for the 80s batman movie & body heat by quincy jones lately

last movie: in honour of noirvember it’s been body heat (1981, dir. lawrence kasdan), strangers on a train (1951, dir. alfred hitchcock), the third man (1949 dir. carol reed), and mona lisa (1986, dir. neil jordan) <3

last book: tinker, tailor, soldier, spy by john le carré (audiobook)

last tv show: iwtv? or finishing up this most recent season of taskmaster, i guess

last thing googled/looked up: besides factchecking my jazz references, nick cave’s notebooks displayed in the stranger than kindness exhibition

looking forward to: reading a bunch of the Edinburgh Companion to the Gothic academic .pdfs i’ve recently acquired, especially the chapters on queer gothic camp & film

tagging @ghstbird and @scalematey and @sandovers