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Ep. 238: The Joys of the Reading Life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Pulitzer Prize Winner's Paper Research Database Method
Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction writer Taylor Branch collected and organized the notes for his epic three part biography of Martin Luther King. He put everything into a database that was all keyed by date. Patrick, I think that is probably too inflexible for your book. Unless you're writing historical nonfiction, you're going to spend a lot of years on it. But I can tell you what I do because I've evolved my paper note taking systems over the books I've written.
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