pantostao
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Hello!
I've been on the psychedelic journey for more than a decade. But I've never had a system that I can use consistently to take notes from my trips. Maybe three years ago, I started taking notes during longer trips (shrooms/LSD), that I used to write on a piece of paper. I used this kind of system:
And then there's another problem: I'm messy. I started taking those notes on blank pieces of paper. Maybe others are on notebook pages. Some of them are on napkins. All over the place. I lost some of them.
So recently, I started taking notes on my computer, on a plain txt file. I usually write those a day or two after the experience, and reflect on the meaning of the stuff I saw. Some of them are very enjoyable to re-read, some of them are very detailed, some of them are sparse or boring.
The problem with this method is that it's very indirect. I'll only write after I'm totally baseline, so all my new notes seem to lack "some magic" in comparison with my "live" notes. But, on the other hand, they're much more coherent.
I'd like to have a method so I can take notes live, and then expand the notes later on my computer. How do you do it?
I've been on the psychedelic journey for more than a decade. But I've never had a system that I can use consistently to take notes from my trips. Maybe three years ago, I started taking notes during longer trips (shrooms/LSD), that I used to write on a piece of paper. I used this kind of system:
This is useful for longer trips, where I can take a quick note and then go back to tripping. However, I dont find this kind of approach useful for DMT.00:24 - Dosed X mg
00:51 - First effects - I feel like...
01:02 - One liner commentary
01:25 - Half a sentence without ending...
02:13 - Life is beautiful
And so on.
And then there's another problem: I'm messy. I started taking those notes on blank pieces of paper. Maybe others are on notebook pages. Some of them are on napkins. All over the place. I lost some of them.
So recently, I started taking notes on my computer, on a plain txt file. I usually write those a day or two after the experience, and reflect on the meaning of the stuff I saw. Some of them are very enjoyable to re-read, some of them are very detailed, some of them are sparse or boring.
The problem with this method is that it's very indirect. I'll only write after I'm totally baseline, so all my new notes seem to lack "some magic" in comparison with my "live" notes. But, on the other hand, they're much more coherent.
I'd like to have a method so I can take notes live, and then expand the notes later on my computer. How do you do it?