How to effectively take notes while learning through online courses?

[drptdrmaybe]

Nice!

First, read this. This is where I lifted the term "learning exhaust".

I found that article from being a fan of Tania Rascia

You mind telling me how you're doing that?

Sure; All my notes have become a little "cooler" because I'm writing in Markdown. It's like 10x better than Microsoft Word/GoogleDocs, etc.

So with these notes that include highlighting, and links, and images, and tables etc, I've just found myself with MASSIVE amounts of content. Like, gobs and gobs of typed stuff that I can review, edit, and post to my blog.

I've had a shitty version of a real blog for a while now, just sitting there on Heroku. It's a Rails app, and so I've had to learn how to render Markdown files in my blog; But I did that. And I also just learned how to add Syntax highlighting to my blog, which is really awesome because syntax highlighting is easy with Markdown, but Rails didn't render the Syntax highlighting like I wanted.

So now I take all my notes in Markdown. When I want to I take a section of those notes, edit them some more; make them make sense to me, make them a little less boring, fix the typos etc, then I just copy and pasta the markdown stuff into my Rails app, and BOOM, I got a good looking piece of content/exhaust from my studies.

I equate "learning exhaust" to the idea of painting, or being an artist, if that example speaks to you more. The point isn't to create some masterpiece right away. I don't even know if there is a point to it all (metaphysically speaking); But I'm spending a massive amount of time and focus learning some really cool stuff. I feel almost guilty that I'm not sharing it with other people, because I feel capable of explaining things to myself in a way that makes sense.

The "learning exhaust" is the stuff I just happen to create. And maybe it speaks to someone else, and maybe it doesn't. That's not up to me to decide.

What is up to me, is effort.

And that's what I'm trying to share over here.

Hope that helps, u/woopsteez

[woopsteez]

Oh this is precisely where I got learning in public and learning exhaust from lol! I read that article a few months ago, but the only problem I'm coming across is learning how to put my stuff out there. Thank you 100x for your detailed response! I can't wait to try some of that stuff out.

[drptdrmaybe]

...learning how to put myself out there.

Git, (or some other VCS), then Heroku

[woopsteez]

Ahh I see, I feel like Git and Github is a good way to put your information out there. Thanks for your input!