workshop - how to learn

[serapath]

How to learn and take notes

Our recommendation is to build your own notes and knowledge.

1. Write it down and revisit and improve your notes when you learn something new.
   • The best technique i found so far is:
     1. using hackmd.io to make notes about all kinds of topics while learning
     2. using github pages and codepen to code little demos about all kind of topics/examples/snippets while learning
        • for backend examples there is also glitch.com
2. bookmark all, interesting links and learning resources together with your hackmd notes and github/codepen/glitch links into the browsers bookmark-bar using bookmark folders too
3. When you learn something, it's easy to forget, unless you start building your personal notes ...and having them linked and always easily accessible on any web page using the bookmark bar is really convenient. No matter what you come across on your learning journey - revisit your bookmarks and update them and restructure them to refine your personal knowledgebase to quickly look up things you already learned.

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example: if you want to bookmark a message that was written on a gitter chat

• right-click the timestamp of that message and choose "open in new tab"
• then bookmark that new tab so you can always open the gitter chat scrolled to that message

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The whole point of the above method is to use the browser bookmarkbar because it's always right in front of you without any context switching.

You can already bookmark any link into bookmark folders

• but what about your personal notes? This is where you can use "hackmd"
• and what about backend code? this is where you can use "glitch"
• and what about frontend code? this is where you can use "codepen" or "codesandbox"

The key here is that they produce a hyperlink for each document which you can share and bookmark - and it's all transparent.

The goal is of course to switch all the above tools to open source p2p alternatives :-)