A Tiddly for your Notes

I seem to have been post­ing much on the sub­ject of note-taking as of late. It’s the sea­sonal thing. What I sud­denly real­ized amongst my plaudits for tech­niques and for tools was a gem of a concept that Geof­frey and I have been rumin­at­ing over for the past year or so: Tiddly­Wiki. In case you …

This Cornell Note-Taking Thing

Last week I poin­ted read­ers to the excel­lent art­icle by Dustin Wax com­par­ing note-taking meth­od­o­lo­gies and weigh­ing the pros and cons of a couple tech­niques. I was not per­son­ally aware of the Cor­nell method. I am how­ever a big fan of Microsoft One­Note for organ­iz­a­tion not just of notes, but of research mater­i­als of all …

Graham and Pauly on the Complexity of Global Relations

The 2007–2008 Wilson series of lec­tures in Cana­dian His­tory kicked off at McMas­ter Uni­ver­sity today. John Weaver, the act­ing Wilson Chair in Cana­dian His­tory, has attrac­ted an excit­ing list of speak­ers for the com­ing year. Lou Pauly spoke on ’Glob­al­iz­a­tion, Polit­ical Author­ity and the Pre­ven­tion of Sys­temic Fin­an­cial Crises.’ He fol­lowed Angela Gra­ham who, less …

Fedunkiw on Diaries as a Historical Source

I atten­ded a lively and effer­ves­cent talk by Mari­anne P. Fed­unkiw at the His­tory of health and Medi­cine Unit. Dr. Fed­unkiw presen­ted her work with the diary/scrapbook of Dr. Dorothea Maude, a rather atyp­ical Eng­lish med­ical doc­tor dur­ing the early twen­ti­eth cen­tury. Dr. Maude was act­ive in the Balkan Wars of 1912–14 and then during …

Notetaking

I threw this link into an aside, and then thought bet­ter of it. It might get lost there, and this latest post from the con­sist­ently prag­matic Dustin Wax on Tak­ing Bet­ter Notes has a pleth­ora of great tips. He also intro­duces the Cor­nell Sys­tem for note­tak­ing which I find quite intriguing and well worth a look.

If I Knew Then What I Know Now…

The tent­at­ive title for post this was how to get ahead by really try­ing, but I thought this might actu­ally sounds a little too preachy. Without mak­ing this too much of a habit (steal­ing from another’s hard work), Dustin Wax has com­piled a great set of sug­ges­tions on how to ‘Make this your best Semester …

And I Lose Another Utility…

Its just not my month/week/day for util­it­ies. First it was the night of water and now in the midst of our best bliz­zard yet this year I seem to have lost half an elec­trical cir­cuit in my house. If it was a full cir­cuit and involved a fuse…that’d be resolv­able by a mere lay­man such …

RMC Fencing

Just back from a great week­end away at my first fen­cing tour­na­ment. The Mac bus headed off on Fri­day and we were in King­ston just before midenight. Short nights sleep and we were on the bus at 6 the next morn­ing. I got to fence Epee after all and we had a great time. Didn’t …

SSHRC Deadline in Approaching

…and all too fast (maybe not). Clearly I have evolved away from being a last minute writer, how­ever the task of writ­ing to dead­lines has gone in the oppos­ite dir­ec­tion. Dead­lines are now cut-off points when it is simply time to say “can’t rumin­ate over this any longer and just have done with it.” “Stop …