2 Annotated Pages in My Field Notes Notebook – Jamie Todd Rubin
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Highlights
- I always write down the name of our server at restaurants. Otherwise, I won’t remember it.
- The Little Miss fell asleep watching a movie. I knew she’d want to start the movie from where she left off, so I jotted down the time of the movie when I noticed her asleep, so I’d know where to restart it when she woke up.
These two pages are typical of what fills my Field Notes notebooks. As I said, it is all ephemeral, a kind of temporary cache for my aging memory. But it works surprisingly well. Handwritten notes are a form of short-term memory