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A comment on The One Notebook Habit (2018). Parent comment

Re:The One Notebook Habit (2018) by hliyan on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:14PM (#21854938)
Writing notes is part of my thinking process too. Sometimes people would find me staring at a list of just 3-4 items on a piece of scrap paper, or a whiteboard with just three boxes connected with arrows (usually representing a part of a system) and ask me, "That's just 3-4 items, why do you need to write it down?"

For some reason, getting it out of your head into a physical medium helps to reason about it better.

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Re:The One Notebook Habit (2018) by xwowsersx on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:39PM (#21855025)
100% agree as I mentioned in another comment. The act of writing or verbalizing allows you to assimilate knowledge in a way that is just completely absent otherwise. Sometimes I simply CANNOT get something clear in my mind until I write it down as clearly as I would if I were writing a README for public consumption.
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