MakingHistory

This weekend I listened to the first third of David Allen's famous book and began thinking about implementing the GTD program in my own process.

The reading and note-taking process I developed in grad school, and thoughts about how and why I want to teach it to my students.

I'm starting to plan how to turn the things I've been learning about my own reading, note-taking, and writing process into material to teach my students how to do something similar.

A quick description of Thomas Kuhn's famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and how I think it applies to historical thinking.

A brief description of how I used to work as a grad student, processing books in my little study carrel at UMass and building Tinderbox "trees" of historiography. I've since moved on to MarginNote 3 and Roam, but I'm still thinking about visualizations.

Talking about how I'm adding Reading Notes into Roam Research from Kindle highlights and notes. Also, more of my comments on Sönke Ahrens' book, How to Take Smart Notes.

I'm thinking about the idea of block quotes vs. paraphrasing, the things I'll probably use Roam Research for (and not), and my notes on the first chapter of Sönke Ahrens' book, How to Take Smart Notes.

My thoughts about the first Zoom meeting of the Roam Research Reading Group that's going to read Sönke Ahrens book How to Take Smart Notes this month. It was a great model for a virtual conference! Also, my notes on the book's Introduction.

A second pod about my learning process, as I've been messing around in Roam Research for about three weeks now and loving it. 

I listened to NowThis's final Who Is? pod of the season, on the Electoral College. While I get what they were trying to say, I think there were some historical lapses that could be corrected to improve their argument about power inequality throughout American history.