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authorEltrac <hi@guhub.cn>2025-05-06 10:01:54 +0800
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+title: Take Ugly Notes and Do Pretty Work
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+## Note is a four-letter word
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+I used to be obsessed with taking pretty notes. Here's my old Obsidian vault and I haven't opened it for almost a year.
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+![](https://image.guhub.cn//uPic/IMG_3586-2.JPG)
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+The link graph is pretty, the whiteboard seems brilliant, and god, I even color-coded all my folders? And they got icons? They're so pretty that I don't even want to click on it.
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+And I surely did not. These well-organized brilliant-looking notes never actually helped me learn anything. Well, maybe a little, but all the good learning happened while I'm doing actual work, not taking pretty notes.
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+In school, teachers evaluate students' academic performance merely by looking at their notes. I remember in my middle school and high school, if a kid's book is almost illegible due to the fact that they have written useless words all over the page, they are considered as a diligent child. And guess what, we all try to write as much crap as possible but never even think to review it.
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+It almost seems that the more pretty notes you've taken, the less you learn.
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+However, taking notes is not always like this.