A quieter release for even stranger times.

Note-taking and personal knowledge management get talked about in academic circles, by both students and teachers. But there’s not much said about its use outside of the academe. I’ll admit, due to my job description, I may be in a better position than most to take advantage of note-taking in a professional context. My background is in software performance testing. My job for several years has been to make sure that applications are prepared to withstand traffic from many users accessing it, usually by writing code to simulate that traffic before it’s released to real users.

In the past few years, after a summer of running and testing beta software, I often find it difficult to sit down and think about what is new. Don’t get me wrong: it’s not because there…