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   sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 01:34:36 JST sim
   Decided to bite the bullet and attempt a different method of taking notes. I hope it goes well. Right now I'm just structuring it a little bit and trying to get clear on why I am doing this so that maybe it goes well.
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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 01:40:35 JST sim

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     Eventually, I would like to learn how to take notes for my own classical studies. If anyone has any tips for this sort of thing or is studying the classics, I'd love to hear what you've been doing.
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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 01:57:21 JST sim

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     Having lots of fun trying to figure out Markdown right now. Bleh.
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     ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:02:28 JST ≠

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     Best markdown is a fountain pen, jus' sayin'

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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:02:28 JST sim

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     @amerika Webshit, not even once.
     
     I would be tempted to write this down by hand or something, but it would be harder to edit it and to make and find links between things in a visual way. Just need to find what works for me.
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     ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:05:18 JST ≠

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     This is true. Perhaps the text editor is the way.

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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:05:18 JST sim

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     @amerika Yeah, there is a place for each method of note taking I think.
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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:06:50 JST sim

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     The best form of note taking is the one that will encourage you to take notes for your purpose of taking notes.
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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:43:46 JST sim

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     @skells Thanks for these tips.
     
     So far, I have been following what interests me and reading as my interests take me. That is the easy part. The hard part is retaining that information that I have read and something that I would like to change. I try to avoid newer stuff because it is harder to find reputable sources for learning the classics without modern sensibilities getting in the way of it.
     
     I have been thinking about reading smaller essays of a work that I have read but I haven't found a place for that yet. Thanks for the tip about the Trivium. Will have to look into that. Makes me wonder how they learned in the past.
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     skells@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 02:43:47 JST skells

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     In my experience, read the older books whenever you can and follow your interests. Avoid contemporary works unless they're well written popular accounts/fun podcasts. You're better off reading what Caesar actually wrote than some dry academic text.

     Try to get a mix of philosophy, history and fiction, including from the modern age. what makes the classics so fascinating is that you can trace their influence throughout history of thought and action. this means you will always have a couple of threads/names to hook pieces of information to.

     Emerson and Montaigne are great essayists that carry a sense of scope with them; you can read one of their works in half an or or so and be done with it, but their allusions and stories will draw you on to read more about Alexander the Great, Napoleon or Plato.

     Never tried to systemise it but if I did the Trivium would be a central pillar:

     https://www.pccs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LostToolsOfLearning-DorothySayers.pdf

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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:30:51 JST sim

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     @skells @amerika Anki could be good for learning something like latin. Would be interesting to learn how to make the right cards for my studies. So far it does look involving.
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     skells@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:30:52 JST skells

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     @sim @amerika also Anki is good for remembering stuff, and if you are good at making the right cards (I'm not yet) it could really supercharge your recall and thus the insight you develop

     http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:33:27 JST sim

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     @antichrist_hater I have used word before to help organise things but I'm not sure it is the best form when it comes to making connections.
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     (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ jp enjoyer ♥ (antichrist_hater@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:33:32 JST (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ jp enjoyer ♥

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     @sim I just have different txt files each one for a specific topic and another one for "other", I quickly add new lines when I come up with ideas and when I feel like it go back to them and organize them.
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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:34:23 JST sim

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     @skells If Anki is less investment, I dread to think how involving MemoryCraft is.
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     skells@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:34:24 JST skells

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     @sim Anki is a lot less investment up front though

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     skells@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 04:34:25 JST skells

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     @sim check out my post on Anki in the thread, also MemoryCraft by Lynn Kelly is the best intro into memory palaces I've ever read and I've checked out a few

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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 05:37:06 JST sim

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     @GLFC @skells Yeah, for something like learning Latin, I'm not sure there is a lot of pre-made anki decks for it. I'd probably have an easier time with learning Japanese for it or something.
     
     Markdown is probably simple to learn, it's just painful to start with when you don't know what you are doing. I've been trying to get the hang of it because I'm using a note program that uses it. Soon I will become webdev. Lmao.
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     GLFC After Dark :qubes: (glfc@rojogato.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Aug-2022 05:37:12 JST GLFC After Dark :qubes:

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     @sim @skells I tried anki but didn't have a lot of luck. I like markdown, I just wish there was some kind of markdown editor that allowed pasting images inline from the clipboard.