One weakness in all the Cornell mockups I've seen (but I might have missed
some) is that they seem to only deal with *layout* and not the actual
Cornell *method* as described in Jeremys referred article. The *method*
suggests that you take notes during the lecture. Live note-taking is a
fluid process and anyone who has done this knows you cannot deal with
tiddlyissues (clicking buttons etc) as you're typically busy concentrating
on what is being said by the lecturer.
According to the article, the method says you add the questions after the
lecture. Obviously though, there are moments during a lecture that do allow
for a sidenote (e.g momentary pause to clean the white board) or you think
of something that you do prioritize higher than the lecturers voice. A
functional system would deal with this also.
Here are parts of a UI and workflow for this:
You basically have one tiddler, directly editable, at start of lecture
(nothing side by side so far). You take notes. Whenever a question pops up
in your mind, you prefix it with e.g "Q:" and when this question ends (more
on this in a second) you just contine the note taking. One fluid text, no
clickety-click at this stage.
When you do want to convert it into side-by side, either during a momentary
pause or after the lecture, only then do you execute some command (sticky
button following viewport?) that splices out the questions into the - then
created - side. A mechanism identifies the "Q:"... wich btw could instead
be "?:" and "!:" (for non-question side notes)... and separates out the
text until it either hits another such marker (i.e a new question) or an
end marker (":?" / ":!").
The remaining notes in between the spliced out questions also become
separate tiddlers but they should probably be viewable as one document for
easy overview. one way to achieve this might be to hide the toolbars in the
inner tiddlers (and use an onHover command to show them). This document
showing all those tiddlers would suitably be titled with the topic of the
lecture or some such and the other tiddlers be children to this.
Now, IRL you sometimes have notes that don't warrant a question. And,
actually, vice versa - sometimes there are questions that are not about
anything explicit in the text.
With the above described workflow, such a "note not warranting a question"
would actually mean a longer tiddler containing "text1, text2, text3" where
the final text3 is what *did* warrant the question which of course is what
caused the split after it. In order to later be able to do a Q&A testing,
we should therefor need to split out this text3. This is a familiar problem
not yet solved, i.e to be able to splice out text into separate tiddlers
from a longer document. (Here it should additionally be marked to be an
answer to the question also)
Ok, the other direction, questions without anything actually in the text:
At the moment of writing I haven't figured out a good workflow for this. It
is a "left column" thing though. Maybe this means the right column is empty
at that part. Not sure what would work best IRL.
For overall layout/display after the editing is done, I think the nicest
would be a continuous document ("a page") to the right, and with matching
questions to the left. The questions are not a continuous text in the same
way so I think these could be obviously separate. (Even if Cornell method
does mention about the text that it is in "telegraphic sentences".)
There was also a summary suggested in the Cornell method. (Mabye this could
be treated as a question to the topic headline?)
I think it makes sense to visualize the desired end product first because
this makes it easier to decide if a mockup idea would really be practical
even if polished.
<:-)
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