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Do you take notes? The story of a Notetaker

Tapas Adhikary on December 02, 2022

Do you take notes? Note-taking is a great habit we build in school and grow in college, but we drop it when we get into professional wor...
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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Hey @atapas . Nice article.

Small reminder: there is slighlty a misuse of the discuss hashtag here. It is ment to ask the question and put your own thoughts into the comment, not to add it in the post.

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Tapas Adhikary

Hey Julia. I was not aware of the Tag usage. I have removed it now. Thanks for the info.

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GUARDIANSOFIT

I've never used this before, so I'm not familiar with the policy. I apologise.

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

No worries. Kindly remove the tag and everything is fine. I also get confused with the tags sometimes.

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GUARDIANSOFIT

Ok

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Mehdi Raash

Honestly, the good point about note-taking in general is the way you free your mind and thoughts at the time. To me it acts like a relief sometimes, but we should keep this habit and shape it in a form that really works for us, I mean, just like any habits, it can easily be misused, for example, by just dumping things in your notes, and making it less important to think.

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Tapas Adhikary

I agree with you Mehdi.

Recently I have learned about making connections between your notes. So that it is easier for us to even taravarse through at any point of time and make things valuable from the past.

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Tapas Adhikary

I second that!

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Mehdi Raash

Nice view, I have a question for you, Do you generally believe that you are dependant on your (growing) notes, Or, it's a side thing(helper) to you?

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Tapas Adhikary

If I have to answer that questions, let me put some stats.

I have written close to 300 articles on various platforms and publishers. 80% of them are the result of my not taking at some point of time. 20% are research based o client requests. So I would say, I am dependant on my notes and the habit of note-taking.

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Nice posts!
For me, I've been using Apex Note for about 3 weeks now and honestly didn't expect much but it's lowkey one of the better AI notetakers I've tried.

Apex Note is bot-free, which immediately solved my biggest frustration. Just run it quietly in the background on your phone. Transcription is accurate, the summary pulls actual important points. The language support here is genuinely impressive - nearly 200 languages.