Basically, the way I do my approach to learning is the following when using this style of notetaking + all its features it has
- Rush through topics that explain things like how jQuery works or how bootstrap works
- Immediately start applying those notes to algorithm challenges/ quizes/ projects
- Constantly refresh back to those notes so there solid reference material
What’s nice about this app especially when using its search features, is I normally dump both my code snippets + my full github repos + freecodecamp solutions sometimes in here.
If you do any development in general (professional or at the noob level like me), you can see the value in a universal search parameter ofr all your code regardless of where its at, since its all in dynalist.
Don’t need to worry about searching through 2 different repos in github (not possible really), or git clone
and using an IDE with some extensions to handle this sort of search query, or porting over notes on different PCs, etc
also, I do lots of excel VBA stuff for work and its got a pretty crappy method of debugging / saving code, so this comes in handy when using dynalist to do almost git-style version control
Its also nice because I can take any flavor of notes as well. I’m learning bootstrap 4 in lynda.com atm so its really heavy on gifs and images in it. I can even put images next to each other in the form of an image gallery. I call them “living notes” because of the gifs
Example
So whenever I refresh my notes I just scroll through the entire document really quickly (10-15 seconds), I generally will just inherently remember things by seeing how my document looks like.
this cuts down on time it takes to refresh myself on a certain topic, etc
I can also open the same document in multiple chrome windows in case I need to look at different parts of the document, or even many documents at the same time