{"id":861,"date":"2020-09-26T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2020-09-26T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T08:24:49","slug":"use-leading-punctuation-when-typing-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/use-leading-punctuation-when-typing-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Use ?? and !! when typing notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For meetings, I switched to typing my notes. I figured out some tricks to regain some of the flexibility handwritten notes offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I jot down questions I want to ask, I begin the line with <code>??<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">?? How does this affect our stonk prices?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when there&#8217;s a point I want to make, I begin the line with <code>!!<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">!! We tried to build this two years ago but stopped when we realized that disco isn't popular<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the trick? Put loud punctuation at the beginning of lines so they stand out. I use some other symbols from Markdown too; the <code>##<\/code> system of headings and <code>><\/code> for quotes. I always double them so they stand out. Now when you look at your notes, instead of seeing a dense wall of text, you see interactions and your thought process. For example, you can see the questions you meant to ask but didn&#8217;t get around to. You can tell the difference between getting an answer directly from a question or through context clues. It&#8217;s amazing how this unlocks a lot of context in your notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I prepare questions or important remarks in advance, I&#8217;ll often use the Spanish \u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bf and \u00c2\u00a1\u00c2\u00a1. They take more effort to write, so I know this is something I wrote when I had time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For meetings, I switched to typing my notes. I figured out some tricks to regain some of the flexibility handwritten notes offer. When I jot down questions I want to ask, I begin the line with ?? ?? How does this affect our stonk prices? And when there&#8217;s a point I want to make, I&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/use-leading-punctuation-when-typing-notes\/\" title=\"Use ?? and !! when typing notes\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use ?? and !! when typing notes<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-showmewhatyougot","post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-meh-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}