我的想法
NOTE
- 通过一个单一的文件作为笔记载体。
- 通过不断 Append 的方式把内容追加到内容到文件顶部
- 定期 Review，把重要的内容往上放
The append-and-review note附录与回顾笔记
A few words on an approach to note taking that I stumbled on and has worked for me quite well for many years. I call it the “append-and-review note”. I find that this approach strikes a good balance of being super simple and easy to use but it also captures the majority of day-to-day note taking use cases.
关于一种偶然发现且对我多年非常有效的笔记方法的几句话。我称之为”附录与回顾笔记”。我发现这种方法在超级简单易用和涵盖日常大多数笔记使用场景之间取得了很好的平衡。
Data structure. I maintain one single text note in the Apple Notes app just called “notes”. Maintaining more than one note and managing and sorting them into folders and recursive substructures costs way too much cognitive bloat. A single note means CTRL+F is simple and trivial. Apple does a good job of optional offline editing, syncing between devices, and backup.
数据结构。我在 Apple Notes 应用中维护一个名为”notes”的单一文本笔记。维护多个笔记并管理将它们分类到文件夹和递归子结构中会带来过多的认知负担。单一笔记意味着使用 CTRL+F 非常简单。苹果在离线编辑、设备间同步和备份方面做得很好。
Append. Any time any idea or any todo or anything else comes to mind, I append it to the note on top, simply as text. Either when I’m on my computer when working, or my iPhone when on the go. I don’t find that tagging these notes with any other structured metadata (dates, links, concepts, tags) is that useful and I don’t do it by default. The only exception is that I use tags like “watch:”, “listen:”, or “read:”, so they are easy to CTRL+F for when I’m looking for something to watch late at night, listen to during a run/walk, or read during a flight, etc.
追加。每当有任何想法、待办事项或其他内容出现时，我都会将其简单地追加到笔记顶部作为文本。无论是在工作时使用电脑，还是在外出时使用 iPhone。我发现给这些笔记添加其他结构化元数据（如日期、链接、概念、标签）并没有那么有用，我默认不这样做。唯一的例外是我使用”watch:”、“listen:“或”read:“等标签，这样在晚上想找些东西观看、跑步或散步时想听些内容、飞行时想阅读时，可以轻松使用 CTRL+F 搜索。
Review. As things get added to the top, everything else starts to sink towards the bottom, almost as if under gravity. Every now and then, I fish through the notes by scrolling downwards and skimming. If I find anything that deserves to not leave my attention, I rescue it towards the top by simply copy pasting. Sometimes I merge, process, group or modify notes when they seem related. I delete a note only rarely. Notes that repeatedly don’t deserve attention will naturally continue to sink. They are never lost, they just don’t deserve the top of mind.
评论。随着内容不断添加到顶部，其他所有内容开始向底部沉去，几乎就像受到重力作用一样。时不时地，我会通过向下滚动和快速浏览来翻阅笔记。如果我发现有什么值得持续关注的内容，我会通过简单地复制粘贴将其救回顶部。有时，当笔记内容看起来相关时，我会合并、处理、分组或修改它们。我很少删除笔记。那些反复不值得关注的笔记会自然而然地继续沉下去。它们永远不会丢失，只是不值得占据我的注意力。
Example usage:示例用法：
- Totally random idea springs to mind but I’m on the go and can’t think about it, so I add it to the note, to get back around to later.
突然想到一个完全随机的想法，但我正忙于赶路，没空细想，所以我把它记在笔记里，以后再回过头来处理。 - Someone at a party mentions a movie I should watch.
在聚会上，有人提到一部我该看的电影。 - I see a glowing review of a book while doom scrolling through X.
在 X 上无意识地刷着信息流时，看到一本好书的光辉评价。 - I sit down in the morning and write a small TODO list for what I’d like to achieve that day.
我每天早上坐下来，写一个小的待办事项列表，列出当天想要完成的事情。 - I just need some writing surface for something I’m thinking about.
我只需要一个书写表面来思考一些事情。 - I was going to post a tweet but I think it needs a bit more thought. Copy paste into notes to think through a bit more later.
我本来想发一条推文，但我认为它需要再多思考一些。复制粘贴到笔记中，以便稍后进一步思考。 - I find an interesting quote and I want to be reminded of it now and then.
我发现了一句有趣的话，我想时不时地提醒自己。 - My future self should really think about this thing more.
我的未来自己应该好好想想这件事。 - I’m reading a paper and I want to note some interesting numbers down.
我在读一篇论文，想记下一些有趣的数字。 - I’m working on something random and I just need a temporary surface to CTRL+C and CTRL+V a few things around.
我在处理一些随机事务，只需要一个临时的表面来 CTRL+C 和 CTRL+V 一些东西。 - I keep forgetting that shell command that lists all Python files recursively so now I keep it in the note.
我老是忘记那个列出所有 Python 文件递归的 shell 命令，所以现在我把它记在笔记里。 - I’m running a hyperparameter sweep of my neural network and I record the commands I ran and the eventual outcome of the experiment.
我在对我的神经网络进行超参数扫描，并记录了我运行的命令以及实验的最终结果。 - I feel stressed that there are too many things on my mind and I worry that I’ll lose them, so I just sit down and quickly dump them into a bullet point list.
我感到压力很大，因为脑子里有太多事情，担心会忘记，所以我就坐下来，快速把它们列成要点清单。 - I realize while I’m re-ordering some of my notes that I’ve actually thought about the same thing a lot but from different perspectives. I process it a bit more, merge some of the notes into one. I feel additional insight.
在重新整理笔记时，我意识到其实我已经从不同角度思考过同一个问题很多次了。我进一步思考，将一些笔记合并成一个。我感觉有了新的见解。
When I note something down, I feel that I can immediately move on, wipe my working memory, and focus fully on something else at that time. I have confidence that I’ll be able to revisit that idea later during review and process it when I have more time.
当我记下某件事时，我感觉可以立即放下，清空工作记忆，完全专注于其他事情。我有信心在后续的回顾中能够重新审视这个想法，并在有更多时间时进行深入处理。
My note has grown quite giant over the last few years. It feels nice to scroll through some of the old things/thoughts that occupied me a long time ago. Sometimes ideas don’t stand the repeated scrutiny of a review and they just sink deeper down. Sometimes I’m surprised that I’ve thought about something for so long. And sometimes an idea from a while ago is suddenly relevant in a new light.
我的笔记在过去几年里变得相当庞大。浏览其中一些很久以前占据我思绪的老东西/想法，感觉很不错。有时候，一些想法经不起反复审视，它们只是更深地沉没。有时候，我惊讶于自己竟然思考了某件事这么久。有时候，很久以前的一个想法突然以新的视角变得相关。
One text note ftw.
一个文本笔记就够了。