Take Note

Mar 06 2025 100 ep. 33 mins 176

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Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.

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Episode 222: Alternative Takes

Mar 06 2025 25 mins

Notes from between 1606 and 1607, the beauty of alternate takes, using notebooks to refine ideas, and why the pencil is a Zen object.

Episode 221: Nubbin

Feb 26 2025 33 mins

This week we discuss the Midori Grain Memo Pad, the book about notebooks (The Notebook), the New Orleans food-to-line ratio. Plus! A gross story about a philosopher and we wonder extemporaneously about science fiction parties.

Episode 220: Big Game

Feb 03 2025 34 mins

Ryan joins us as we prep for the big game with our talk of oyster restaurants, middle school recitals, and Adam’s approach to a “logbook” to track movies watched, stories read, etc.

Episode 219: The Knight of New Jersey

Feb 02 2025 34 mins

In this episode we share notes from a Texas snowstorm, journals from the olden days spark creative, a dream journaling update, a new segment, and discuss the new work from John McPhee in the New Yorker. We also announce the new book we’ll read together and discuss. Please enjoy!

Episode 218: Mudlark

Jan 21 2025 31 mins

This episode we find an old notebook that you can't find anywhere. We learn what powers marathons and we discuss A Complete Unknown, David Lynch, and Rushmore.

Episode 217: The Dictaphone Closet

Jan 14 2025 28 mins

It’s 2025, we look at some year-starting notebooks, discuss how one might use the Notes app with paper notebooks, and share our slate of waddya gots. Ted’s audio changes a few minutes in, sorry about that!

Episode 216: The Howard Stern of It All

Dec 30 2024 28 mins

In the last episode of 2024, we haphazardly bring the heat, rambling from one topic to the next. We range across used bookstores, endurance in art, a notebook of the week, and a exegesis on Sirius radio.

Episode 215: Puzzley

Dec 26 2024 24 mins

We discuss the Field Notes Vintage Edition and our winter zine. And we barely glance at Ed Begley, Pho, and Negative Time.

Episode 214: Woodchipper Talk

Dec 06 2024 30 mins

We spend some time discussing writer Oliver Burkeman’s thoughts on time and tasks, but not before covering wood chipping wisdom, baked waiters, salsa spiciness, and fast food divorce.

Episode 213: Connotate

Nov 19 2024 21 mins

This week: Listener mail, pencils exchanged at the bar, and more.