Tinderbox Meetup - Sunday, May 7, 2023: Connect with Sönke Ahrens live, the author of How to Take Smart Notes

… I find that it’s really useful to have some kind of practice that forces one to revise what one’s written in the past. For instance, for those familiar with Bullet Journalling, the process of migration “forces” this revision to happen.

The Attribute Browser is your best friend! On this picture below, for example, the notes I take for my journal are sorted by dates.

I can also sort them by any attributes system or personal attributes I need. For instance, on the second screenshot, my notes are sorted by a user attribute I created: “Projet”. This attribute consists of several specific kind of journals I use daily: a professional journal, a research journal, and so on.

In this way, I can easily review my notes over the weeks from that angle, that changing perspectives, attributes: created, modified, tags, authors…