Comment by beaconstudios

I don't take notes, I create documents that I refine over time. A bit of research into a topic gets continually added to as I read related books and articles, with linked pages for the specific sources tied into the core topic with generic content in it. I find taking notes to be pretty pointless, but organising information to be helpful - if that makes sense.

The limit of my notetaking is daily journaling because if I link out to the pages I created or updated with some contextual information (e.g. "read chapter 2 of book X, went off and read a blog post at https://X that was mentioned") then I can retrace the backlinks to find out when/how I learned something. I wish I could do that with things that I haven't put into Roam (or Notion, which to be honest I use more often).