What plants in my garden?

As I mentioned earlier, I end up reading and listening to a great many things over the course of the day. While I was doing my Ph.D this was mostly scientific papers and the financial news. Currently, my reading is more eclectic and I also spend some time listening to podcasts. Enumerating the various sources of knowlegde, as I do below, will serve as the first step in the file/folder hierarchy that I am going for in this garden.

  1. Articles online: Whenever I come across an interesting article, I end up inevitably saving it to Pocket.

  2. Podcasts: They have been an immense source of knowledge and information for many years now. I might even write a separate blog post on my primary website about the various podcasts I listen to.

  3. Wikipedia: Since I participate in quizzes quite a bit, I end up skimming through a lot of wikipedia as well.

  4. Books: These will form a decent chunk of my reading going forward. I use different devices and formats so further sub-division makes sense:

    i. Paper books: Notes here would definitely fall into the evergreen category since I feel that I just end up being more focused with paper books.

    ii. EBooks: Most of my fiction reading is on my Kindle. I retrieve my annotations from Kindle ebooks through the Clippings website.

    iii. On the computer: These are mostly textbooks or research volumes.

    iv. Audiobooks: Again mostly fiction.

  5. Music: Mostly spotify. One might think that there aren't any "notes" to be taken while listening to music, I would ideally like to take note of what I am listening to and better train my ear to differentiate between different instruments and composers.

  6. TV Series: Netflix, Amazon Prime and the like.

  7. Documentaries: I watch my fair share of documentaries. The idea of evergreen notes would be most valuable here since I won't be taking notes while watching.

  8. Youtube Videos: Youtube has become a great source for learning and discovering new things.

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