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John Dickerson of “Face the Nation” talks about how he uses a Reporter’s Notebook and how he helped Field Notes make one. ❧
While he doesn’t mention it, he’s capturing the spirit of the commonplace book and the zettelkasten.
[…] I see my job as basically helping people see and to grab ahold of what’s going on.
You can decide to do that the minute you sit down to start writing or you can just do it all the time. And by the time you get to writing you have a notebook full of stuff that can be used.
And it’s not just about the thing you’re writing about at that moment or the question you’re going to ask that has to do with that week’s event on Face the Nation on Sunday.
If you’ve been collecting all week long and wondering why a thing happens or making an observation about something and using that as a piece of color to explain the political process to somebody, then you’ve been doing your work before you ever sat down to do your work.
I’d love to interview him about his process as well as keeping track of his notes after-the-fact. Does he index them? Collate them? How does he archive them? What role do they play in his book writing processes? Is his system something that he was taught, something which he created and refined over time, or a little bit of both?
Where are Obsidian, Roam Research, Org Mode, Foam, Logseq, Athens, Dendron, Remnote, nvUltra, et al?
Coffee With A Codex on Monday, November 1, featured LJS 418, a 13th century Italian account of the martyrdom of Saint Blaise, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, followed by readings and chants for a Mass of Saint Blaise. Additional texts, probably in different hands, at the end o… pic.twitter.com/jQoX5B7FRt
— Amey Hutchins (@AmeyHutchins) November 2, 2021
"If [the Luddites] had their way we wouldn’t be living in a world with ‘no technology’, we’d be living in a world where communities have a say in the technological decisions that will impact them.” https://t.co/hXuhSKmIQD https://t.co/yjFiVKOWST
— Harold Jarche (@hjarche) November 1, 2021
What I miss in note-taking apps, like #roam, #logseq, #remnote or #obsidianmd is lack of annotation layer. We have [[page-references]], we have #tags but no way how to create annotations for a specific text within a block. Or is there something? #tft @codexeditor @cortexfutura pic.twitter.com/H4SsYGW7Ey
— CatoMinor (@CatoMinor3) November 1, 2021I use https://t.co/s8F3jI9n3M for this on top of rendered notes (in the Agora).
— In Flancia we'll meet (@flancian) November 1, 2021
It gets (a lot) complicated to see this without significant background reading and experience of what he was doing. (I think even Frances Yates misunderstood some of his intention in her magisterial tome.)
IndieWeb is doing some of what he imagined, but rather than doing it in our physical brains (memory), we’re doing together from website to website in a similar communal manner.
For academics, annotation is also essential to scholarly communication and knowledge production. With Annotation, we eagerly accepted a social and scholarly responsibility to spark, curate, and facilitate discussion about annotation. ❧
