Back in January, I gave a friend of mine a notebook. I have lots of them. Several times in the past he’d said that he finds the way I jot my ideas down interesting. So I grabbed one off the shelf and handed it to him.
Earlier today we had a coffee together and I asked him how he’s getting on with his notebook. He pulled it out of his pocket and he’s already about 60 pages in.
He said an inscription I scribbled onto the back page helped him keep on track. If you want to take useful notes, let them be messy, and honest.
Messy is important. There’s a side of note-taking that’s almost like art. It’s about the aesthetic, rather than the ideas.
Honesty matters, too. What good are dishonest observations and ideas?
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