Re:The One Notebook Habit (2018)
by greenyoda on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:52AM
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Other problems with using Google as a reference:
- You may find search results that exactly match what you're looking for, but are wrong or useless. They may refer to an obsolete version of the software you're trying to use, or they could take you to a question on Stack Overflow that has no answers, or they may have been written by someone who didn't know what they were doing but just wanted to blog about it.
- Google is distracting. It's filled with ads, and with interesting stuff that you're tempted to click on that's unrelated to what you're currently doing. Your own notes are much more focused on the tasks that you want to accomplish.
- You may find search results that exactly match what you're looking for, but are wrong or useless. They may refer to an obsolete version of the software you're trying to use, or they could take you to a question on Stack Overflow that has no answers, or they may have been written by someone who didn't know what they were doing but just wanted to blog about it.
- Google is distracting. It's filled with ads, and with interesting stuff that you're tempted to click on that's unrelated to what you're currently doing. Your own notes are much more focused on the tasks that you want to accomplish.