note

Lots of disorganized notes

A note (from the Latin notitia 'knowledge, message') or a note is a brief piece of information recorded in writing . In diplomatic relations , short notes-like transcripts of oral statements are called aide-mémoire , which translates from French as a reminder .

Applications and further details

A note serves, for example, as a reminder of tasks or appointments to be completed, or helps to record extensive information in a short form (short note).

Particularly suitable for notes is the shorthand , because of their compactness and speed.

A famous type of notebook is the Moleskine , which is said to have been used by famous people such as Ernest Hemingway , Louis-Ferdinand Celine , Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse .

Dictation machines are also sometimes used to take notes orally.

A derived meaning is the perception of an object or a situation or state by someone ( taking notice of something / someone ).

The author Ludwig Hohl raised the "note" to its own literary genre: his main philosophical-literary work Die Notizen comprises many hundreds of notes-like entries that revolve around the same topics over and over again.

literature

Eugen Haberkern , Joseph Friedrich Wallach : auxiliary dictionary for historians. Middle Ages and Modern Times. 2nd Edition. Francke, Bern and Munich 1964, p. 30.

Konrad Fuchs , Heribert Raab : Dictionary of history. 11th edition. Dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-03364-9 , p. 32.

Hanns-Josef Ortheil : Writing close to life. Noting and sketching. Duden, Mannheim and Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-411-74911-9 .

"Thoughts travel, ideas arrive". The world of notes. Edited by Marcel Atze and Volker Kaukoreit on behalf of the literary archive of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Library in the City Hall , with the assistance of Tanja Gausterer and Martin Wedl. Vienna 2017 (= Sightings Volume 16-17), ISBN 978-3-7069-0837-5 .