I have a folder with various document files on my various theories and work. I used to go with the earliest ideas at the top and then work downward. Now I've reversed that and have the newest ideas at the top, so I start out looking at the latest things. I bold the main concept that made me want to write that thing down, so I can skim the file easily, and then under that use hyphens with each thought or longer statement relating to it. So a typical entry looks something like this. (for some reason I can't do hard returns so...it actually wouldn't look like this at all.)
Ted Williams called his book "The Science of Hitting." -This type of phrase might be good if we want to collect this as a book. -We can go to wikipedia later and see how the book was received.
If I have a breakthrough, I put it in red, and if I quote something or have something interesting, it's in italics.
We all deal with a lot of information. What are your strategies of taking notes for new information?
Do you take any notes on paper? If so do you scan them or otherwise digilatize them?
Do you have specific strategies for deciding which information to write down?
How do you write notes to capture all important information?
Do you tag your notes?
If you use Evernote, or a similar system how private are your notes? Would you allow friends to read in them? Your spouse?