Taking Notes By Andy Sporring - Issue #70

September 17, 2022

Hi!

Last week I had a small challenge for my crew in Ship30for30, who would be my 70th subscriber to my newsletter. That winner would also be published and acknowledged in this, the 70th issue of my newsletter.

The winner is Beant K Dillon; her addition is this tiny (Nano?) Poem:

Wads of cotton strewn across the sky

A crazed white butterfly zips past

Who has the time to write a poem?

You can also find her on Medium and Instagram



Four Things I Got Excited About This Week ☀️

  1. Spoke for the first time in a Live of Ship30for30 (Youtube clip down under here!)

  2. Finally started to write my book!

  3. I have started carefully to compose again.

  4. Spending time with my granddaughters again, and I have so much to learn from them!

New Newsletter

Due to unforeseen events, I wasn't able to finish this weeks article.

In November, I will launch a paid newsletter with the working name:

Deep Dives Into Tools And Notetaking

Price will be $5 a month and $50 a Year

This newsletter will still be published as is, but deeper dives will only be available for subscribers.

My Most Recent Articles On Medium 📝

Care For Your Creativity Like A Gardener For His Plants.. “The Art Of Being Creative, And Prosperous.” is published by Andy Sporring in Taking Notes.

I love writing. I love to fill an empty page with words, sentences, and meaning. I love sharing my knowledge with others, not only individuals but also the World. Sometimes I feel I have so little…

I got so much to thank him for, not only for being here but also for who I am and have become. He was sociable and could fit in with almost everyone, like me. He could also read into a new subject…

My Most Important Essay Of The Week 🧑‍🎨

You get to read the whole thing here!

The Notetakers Dilemma, And The Art Of Listening For Signals

The Notetakers Dilemma

It’s not that surprising; it can be such a mess. And if it isn't, we may have missed out on some opportunities to take notes and lost valuable materials for coming articles or whatever we’re creating. The unstructured mess, yes, we all have it in various degrees. It can be a source of inspiration we didn’t know about. We only have to listen for signals in the noisy and messy woods of information. 

The Art Of Listening For Signals

In my everlasting pursuit to find a way to make sense of all the various note-taking techniques, I have now come to the part where I find myself listening for signals. Signal, you’re saying? What do you mean?

Signals. or traces in my notes. Where I can see the connection, where my systematology doesn’t help me, in my PKM, I now have a little more than +3500 notes, or cards as they’re called in Scrintal. Those are partly imported from Readwise and partly notes I have taken lately. Plus, all the essays I have been writing for Ship30for30.

It’s not a lot of cards, but it’s already starting to give me more and more clarity about where I’m going with my knowledge and research. It’s also given me signals on where I should go next.

More about this is in this article on Medium.

Rethinking Notetaking Again!

Five Links I Find Interesting 🤔

How do creators find ideas to write about? Poets, artists, and authors alike have been wondering about the source of our inspiration for millennia. But what's the difference between inspiration and idea sex?

Learning goes better with doing. You learn by doing, and you do better by learning. They are inseparable. You can’t accelerate your progress through learning alone, especially if you aim to acquire…

Sitting in your underwear, hearing voices, talking to people who are not there, mumbling to yourself, Googling how to dispose of bodies and the firing rate of an uzi submachine gun. Assuming this sounds like the ideal life for you—and you don’t want to be certifiably crazy but only a little crazy—then the life of the professional writer is what you’re after. And I’m going to tell you how to make it happen. Right now, some people reading this are already raising objections. Sure, it’s easy for me to say…Continue reading "So You Want to be a Writer…"

With the advent of the Clubhouse app in March 2020, the world of social audio grew dramatically practically overnight — and it certainly isn’t going anywhere. If you haven’t been including social audio in your business’s social media marketing strategy, now is the time to change that.

Life gets busy. Has Atomic Habits been gathering dust on your bookshelf? Instead, pick up the key ideas now.

Bonuses ➕

I heard so much about LYT (Linking Your Thinking), and here's a great chance to dive into it and poke around to see what it is and how you can use it for your notemaking and PKM.

The LYT Kit is a sandbox of linked digital notes. Open it with the Obsidian notes application. It has 250+ notes that are linked 1000+ times. It's the world's most downloaded kit for linked notes (35,000+). And it's free. Explore, experiment, & learn by doing.

Things & Stuff 👂

I have been looking for a way to use one of my old Android phones as a webcam, but haven't found any that worked well. Until I found https://iriun.com/ It's both free and works excellently. I can strongly recommend it if you are looking for a solution like this.

Weekly Quote 🦉

"Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance."―Amit Ray

This Weeks Creative Workhour Twitter Space🐦

“A.A. Milne knew a LOT about writers.

His archetypes give us safe places to create in the 100-acre wood.

#SpacesHost @AndersSporring

#SpacesHost @AlessandraWhite

#SpacesHost @ShadowsPub

https://t.co/WXE7rvubTi”

Youtube Video Of The Week 📺

I was finally able to talk on a Ship30for30 Live! :)

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