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Shannon Crabill
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Do you prefer handwritten or typed notes?

After writing about my note-taking process, I started to wonder how other developers keep their notes.

Which note-taking format do you prefer? Have you experimented with other notetaking formats?

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Fulton Browne β€’

Typed, so I can read themπŸ€£πŸ˜‚.

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Shannon Crabill β€’

Tracey Morgan nodding

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Alex Macniven β€’

I use pen and paper for designing and problem solving. Anything I want to keep I write a .md file and push it to a private git repository.

I will one day compile all my notes into private wikis... hopefully πŸ™‚

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Shannon Crabill β€’

A wiki is another approach I have been thinking about taking. A bookmarks folder has not been useful to me.

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Amanda Hasenzahl β€’

I prefer hand written notes because, personally, it makes me pay attention and absorb the information more than just typing it out.

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Shannon Crabill β€’

Exactly!

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Order & Chaos Creative β€’

Hand written, barely legible notes, diagrams and scribbles.

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Julie β€’

Typed. My notes come out more organized and my handwriting is horrid.

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akloya β€’

evernote has been very useful for my note taking process.

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Diego Isco β€’

I love take notes in Markdown. Bear app is my favorite to do this.
Buuut, for very very important things, I write in a little notebook

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Shannon Crabill β€’

Oh, Bear looks cool.

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Shannon Crabill β€’

Paper notes make sense in this context. You can jot down what makes sense at the time and clarify/organize later if needed.

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