Fun experiment.
Here's a fun experiment that I just discovered after years of using the same pen.
Take a look at this multicolor Bic pen:
When I first started using this pen, I made a conscious decision to use red for definitions, black for just the mass of information that I would be interpreting or note takng. However, when I encountered the available options of 'green' and 'blue' I wasn't too sure for what purpose those colors would be used as.
Eventually, after looking through my notes, I discovered that green would often represent meaningful content to myself, and blue would be used to denote significance of material, again on some personal level this would happen, consciously or unconsciously... Still unsure on the blue on that level of understanding.
What are your thoughts? Have you by any chance unconsciously or consciously denoted colors for some sort of conceptual schema?
Take a look at this multicolor Bic pen:
When I first started using this pen, I made a conscious decision to use red for definitions, black for just the mass of information that I would be interpreting or note takng. However, when I encountered the available options of 'green' and 'blue' I wasn't too sure for what purpose those colors would be used as.
Eventually, after looking through my notes, I discovered that green would often represent meaningful content to myself, and blue would be used to denote significance of material, again on some personal level this would happen, consciously or unconsciously... Still unsure on the blue on that level of understanding.
What are your thoughts? Have you by any chance unconsciously or consciously denoted colors for some sort of conceptual schema?
Comments (10)
What does this all say about me? Wondering.
I would say that you are an organized think.
I use different colored pens to denote different reasons for grades I give.
Red for crappy work.
Blue for late presentation.
Black for accepted final grade.
Sometimes other color, with side notes to explain reason.
It saves writing the explanations along side each of the grade.
Red is only for markups on drawings when I'm reviewing them. I sometimes use it on text too, but more often these days I use the comment function on Adobe or redline/strikeout on MS Word.
Blue and black are fairly interchangeable. If I've been writing in black and I want something to stand out, I'll use blue. I also like to sign everything with blue so it's clear whether or not a document has been copied in color.
Green means clean. Red means dirty. When I'm marking up a figure that shows where contaminated soil or groundwater is, I can show the distribution of contamination.
When I'm trying to put lots of information on a map, I'll use all my pens and sometimes colored pencils and highlighters.
Since you are taking notes for posterity, be sure that the ink in these pens is waterproof and resistant to fading. Naturally the paper you write on should be acid free -- then kept in climate controlled storage bins.
In answer to your last question, yes. I love devising color coded conceptual schema. But then I forget which color meant what in the current conceptual scheme, and soon I am overwhelmed by confusion. Have you tried writing your ideas on note cards with different colored pens and then sorting the cards into yet another schema of various colored boxes located on a third conceptual schema of various colored shelves?
How do you pronounce Polish names beginning "pryz.. like "Przybylski... or prz,... as in Przewalski?
I don't much like it, because it seems like an attempt to impose an appearance of structure on material that is actually wooly and confused; to make waffle seem like argument and science. But for one's own purposes in trying to absorb material and organise one's thoughts - 'whatever gets you through the night.' Just don't make your ink colours into an ontology.
There is something clinical about it, but sometimes you need structure to help balance you along your trajectory to improve the results. You could do 'whatever gets you through the night' but I am sure wifey would appreciate a bit of thoughtfullness in your foreplay, surely.
On a side note.
I have a confession to make. I used to take those pens apart and change the color of ink to a different color indicator, so Red was Blue and Blue was Green and so on. :snicker:
( Postal service also prefers black and blue ink. Do I have postman mind? Hahaha.)