History (Methodology)

• 2024-0523-1700-42 BN. The Card-File System of Note-Taking (Goutor, 1980).
  • 2024-0527-2014-01 QN. For most historians, research is not only the most time-consuming part of their task... it is also in many ways the most enjoyable.
  • 2024-0527-2217-31 CN. When considering historical sources, sometimes the absence of information is, in itself, informative. (AKA a 'negative fact'.)
  • 2024-0527-2016-46 CN. The mechanical process of a good note-taking methodology can help the researcher avoid careless errors.
  • 2024-0527-2037-27 QN. 'The historian is only as good as his card-file.' Jacques Goutor.