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  1. @amoroso 🧵Newton’s Waste Book

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    Bookkeepers kept a “waste book” as a place for notes recorded on the fly. Later they would extract selected information and copy it into the formal ledger.

    #Journal #labnotes #wastebook #notetaking

  2. @cogdog
    I also keep a paper notebook on my nightstand and desk for when I need to log something instantly — a few words, a quick sketch, a note from a meeting, or YouTube (i write down the timestamp).

    At least for me, it’s still much faster and more flexible than a phone, iPad, or a walk to my MacBook. If it’s of lasting value, I can copy or xref my paper note’s permalink or a snapshot of the notebook page in any digital system of record I choose. And do that days or a week latter. #wastebook

  3. RE: oldbytes.space/@amoroso/116481

    “Isaac Newton’s famous Waste Book, currently kept at Cambridge University Library, is a rare example of a physical continuity between the two cultures of notetaking: humanist and scientific. It starts out as a commonplace book of excerpted scriptural commentary… Newton found the deceased [stepfather] Smith’s partially used commonplace book and began adding his own prolific and inventive notes on mathematical problems and derivations and sketches of physical experiments.” #journal #wastebook

  4. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  5. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  6. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  7. @macosken @evoterra Yep. Absolutely.

    That's why we're working on #SafeGuardingResearch & I'm collecting people's stories, #HeirloomFiction & #HeirloomArt

    My digital #Wastebook is on a server in the UK & data is being stashed around the globe.

    universeodon.com/@SrRochardBun

  8. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  9. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  10. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  11. @mcmullin My take is that the Angel of Art is never going to come handing out freebies all on his own. You have to be prepared to listen — and to scribble it down real fast in your #wastebook

  12. So here I sit, with the hurricane/tropical storm Helene somewhere up the road, and the predicted rains and winds never really materialized. We have power, water, internet — what am I supposed to do with my time now that I'm not going to be clearing debris? I know! I shall devote the day to finding just the right #WasteBook for a gargantuan new project.

  13. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)

  14. Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)