How I use daily notes

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• Author: dsebastien.net
• Title: How I use daily notes
• Reference: https://www.dsebastien.net/how-i-use-daily-notes/
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• As a result, my daily notes act as the inbox of my knowledge base. Anything I come across or think about that I decide to capture ends up in my daily notes. The benefit of this approach is that I can remain focused on whatever I’m doing. I don’t waste time creating notes and links throughout the day. I don’t have time for that. Instead, I defer the “knowledge extraction” to my weekly reviews. — Updated on 2023-06-26 — Group: #Public

• What I call “knowledge extraction” is the process of creating and linking notes, based on the information stored in my daily notes. Once done, the processed daily notes only contain links to the newly created notes. I generally do this once a week, during my weekly review, extracting knowledge from one daily note at a time. — Updated on 2023-06-26 — Group: #Public

• Once knowledge extraction is done, daily notes maintain the link between the moment when some idea entered my knowledge base and the idea itself. Thus they act as an ordered reference of what I added to my knowledge base. If I look back at a daily note from last year, I can easily recover the mental context I was in at the time and the things I’ve learned back then. — Updated on 2023-06-26 — Group: #Public

• Extracting knowledge during weekly reviews — Updated on 2023-06-26 — Group: #Public

  • Annotation: Key points in this article:

• capture things of interest / things you learn as you go

• for speed capture these in the body of your daily note

• as part of weekly review transfer these ideas into their own notes, update the daily notes to link to the newly formed notes