Why taking notes is important

Before you start taking notes, the most important thing is to know why you'll be taking those notes.

There must be a goal, a purpose that will move you through an initial burdensome process of learning and creating the discipline off taking notes every day.

Many times, people write notes so that they can refer to them, increase their learning ability, create new ideas. But they might also just write, without ever coming back to what they have written.

Writing might then become a purpose in itself. It helps with new ideas as well as it helps just dumping things from our heads.

Some types of writing, such as daily journals, might exist for a self assessment of the day. By repeating the same routine every day we instinctively know if we are improving ourselves or not: there's no need for statistics, for reading what we wrote. The act of writing is enough.

You might also be a data gatherer and create statistics for everything. Charts, tables, connections. Write to be able to better visualize things in your life.

In the end, taking notes is as much important as the reason we take them. Learning, improving ourselves, organizing our thoughts, saving information that might be useful in the future, dumping things from our brains, playing games, visualizing patterns and trends, etc. Pick one reason, start writing with that in mind. When you notice, you'll be used to writing, and you'll be doing that for so many reasons that you will need to stop and either think or read about why you started writing to remember it.

Enjoy your writing, your purposeful writing. The secret is in the journey, not at the destination.