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Weather its a new concept, new topic, something I want to research some more, or something that might potentially improve an existing concept, I can't seem to effectively organize my notes on the fly. They seem to be all over the place. I mean, I write something down on my computer or in a notepad, go back to it later when I am not busy to make sense of the thought, attempt to put that thought together, and finally categorize this information so I can refer to it again as needed. Problem is, I'll have a ton of, what seems like, useful information and these notes will get so congested that they tend to drift into a different direction and essentially cannot find the information I am looking for sometimes. Sometimes it gets so bad that I will literally write a duplicate in different formatting (Word vs. Excel) without deleting the old, just because I think the new format will be more effective in organization. At the end of the day, everything becomes this whole big clusterf**k of information that leaves me scratching my head not knowing where everything really is. Its like my girlfriend taking all these selfies and having 10 copies of the same picture on her phone, which she claims are different.

I want to start consolidating all this information so I can make better use of it. And prevent this from happening with an effective solution.

How do you guys effectively organize, categorize, and work on your notes??
Do you have a certain strategy you abide by?
How do you know when to effectively eliminate or catalog certain content after its been applied?
Time frames??
Updates to content??
Templates??
 
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Huuf madl!
 
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