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quote on vmac.chhttps://vmac.ch/tags/quote/Recent content in quote on vmac.chHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 21 Apr 2025 09:25:11 +0200<link>https://vmac.ch/posts/2025-04-21-i-m-organising-my-notes-right-1745220311/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:25:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://vmac.ch/posts/2025-04-21-i-m-organising-my-notes-right-1745220311/</guid><description>I’m organising my notes right now and stumbled over this quote: You’re not building a note-taking system, but rather a way to capture, explore, and generate ideas. by Jorge Arango on page 181 Duly Noted</description></item><item><title/><link>https://vmac.ch/posts/2023-07-19-cleaning-up-my-notes-for-1689754906/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:21:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://vmac.ch/posts/2023-07-19-cleaning-up-my-notes-for-1689754906/</guid><description>Cleaning up my notes for the On Writing Well by William Zinsser. And found this quote again (from page 111): Finally, don’t strain to find synonyms for “he said.” Don’t make your man assert, aver and expostulate just to avoid repeating ‘he said," and please–please!–don’t write “he smiled” or he grinned." I’ve never heard anybody smile. The reader’s eye slips over “he said” anyway, so it’s not worth a lot of fuss.</description></item></channel></rss>