Is there a collection of note taking practices (such as they exist) among the great thinkers/scientists in history? Is there an assessment or study of their notebooks somewhere that distills best practices? Are techniques like ZK or spaced repetition based on those practices or studies? Have they been studied for desirable traits?
The science of notetaking so far seems to have a lot of art and opinion, but little science
I have landed on journal (ordered by timestamp) + occasional topics ("spatial") pattern of blob notes.
Doing topics is too hard initially and you end up hitting some point where you feel like you need to refactor. Doing "journal" dated entries mean you are allowed to copy the entire entry again and rewrite it without thinking about refactoring.
I would imagine that due to the way paper and pen work, in the old days things must have been a bit like this "no erase/no refactor" method.