note-taking 3

I use this prompt to generate sketchnotes on Gemini: Draw this as a visually rich, intricately detailed, colorful, and funny, sketchnote. Below that, I paste (or attach) whatever content I want it to draw. I also turn on “Create Images” and switch the model to “Pro” (for better thinking.) Here are some examples of how to use it. Summarize articles. Pick email, report, news, or website. Here’s a sketchnote for this article: How to use AI for research. I used the prompt above and pasted the article text. ...

I take notes as I read or listen to books. Here are the notes. They’re mostly in Markdown. They’re meant for me. They may not be as clear to you. They’re often written on a mobile while I walk. They may have spelling mistakes.

I maintain my (extensive) notes in text files. I’ve explored Evernote, Onenote, Google Keep, Apple Notes, and many other platforms. But text files work. I store them as Markdown and sync them on DropBox. They used to be relatively large files (50-100KB) each, on broad topics. For example: todo.txt was a consolidated list of things I had to do people.txt was a list of everything I knew about people (addresses, birthdays, etc) towrite.txt was a list of everything I wanted to write about notes.txt was where I tracked notes about any topics … and more This led to a couple of problems. ...