How the notes are kept
Plain language, one idea at a time, and a date so the thought can be placed later. Nicole Junkerman trusts the small entry over the perfect one.
Notes on learning
Learning Notes
Short entries on ideas worth keeping, written plainly enough to read again later.
These are the working notes of Nicole Junkerman: a question jotted before it disappears, a summary of something newly understood, a small correction to an old assumption. Nicole Junkerman keeps each one brief, because a note that takes a minute to write is a note that actually gets written. Nothing here is meant to be the final word — only a clear marker to return to.
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Why bother writing it down
A half-formed note is easy to revisit; a forgotten one is gone. Keeping the page open is the whole habit, and it is a gentle one.
Reading into learning
Many notes begin in a book and end as a question. The shelf and the notebook feed each other, quietly and often.
From the notebook
From a margin to a note
Most entries start as a line scribbled in a margin. Later it is copied out, trimmed and given a little room to breathe. By the time it lands here, Nicole Junkerman has usually decided what was actually worth remembering — and let the rest go.
A good note is short enough to keep and clear enough to use.
Elsewhere in the notebook
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