Building your personal knowledge file

[polarize]

If you don't do this or something similar, you are missing out. We all read things on this forum and in other places online that can improve our game. Problem is that 99% of guys out there will read something and think they will apply it, but most likely they will not.
To help myself, I keep a running Word file (it is over 67 pages long now) with little tid-bits that I want to remember and apply to my game. I review this document weekly before sarging, using the color coding in Word to highlight things that I want to master that week.
Start a similar file for yourself, but be frugal about what you post in it. Do not overload yourself with senseless reference material...only include the core technology that will help you improve your game. A new routine, some inner game technique that you want to internalize, LMR tactics. Only you will know what will help your game. A whole library of material chosen by someone else is not going to help you nearly as much as a personal catalogue of the techniques that resonate with your life.
The community can be overwhelming...take personal responsibility to bite off a small part each day and work it to perfection. Track your progress. Take notes.
Good luck,
Polarize

[Hypnovibe]

I am just realizing this and am in the process of creating a personalized notebook. I plan to write it down because i hear you remember it and it goes into your subconscious mind that way. I like the color coded word for missions, weekly goals, and specific techniques though. In the beginning the field will present unlimited scenario's that you are not equiped to deal with though....thats why we need a place like this.

I do this too. I have a folder titled "Mystery Method" I first made for just storing the ebook and locklizard viewer. Since its creation it now houses video files and anything pick up related I find of interest on the net. Good stuff in there!

I do something similar but I don't use a word document. I have a digital voice recorder, and it includes 4 seperate folders that can store up to 100 files each:
Folder A: Sarging recordings - when I get back home I can disect the good and bad things about my session that day.
Folder B: Pre-Recorded Openers
Folder C: Pre-Recorded Stories and Routines
Folder D: "Empty" for now. Planning on putting in recordings of different methods that I can use to switch it up. Don't know for sure though =P
Also, another neat feature is that I can store these recordings on my computer so I can clear up space on my DVR.

[chiefofficer]

i downloaded a free small program called keynote.
you can find it here
and you can find a screenshot here
it's freeware and very useful for pick-up. Take a look at the screenshot and check it out.

[Fader]

Personaly I use a word doc for this

[swabe]

I was getting overwhelmed by too much information that I just had to choose the best ones and discard the ones that I thought may not work for me.
What I have done is write PU info on index cards. Then file them separately. The categories are: openers, patterns, stories, body language notes, games & gimmicks.
But on knowing the M3 model... I'm thinking of rearranging my files into the different phases.

[Relativity]

I've just started a journal to document my inner and outer game, and anything that i learn, use, tactics, routines, etc... it DOES work. i am starting to internalize this stuff better. thanks for the advice.

[torque]

i'm oldskool. i use a spiral-bound memo pad & a pen. i absorb the material more deeply when i'm writing it down, instead of electronically cut-and-pasting.
i have tabbed sections for negs, convo, inner game...

[FORGE G]

i agree that the actual writing down of materials onto a notebook or a legal pad can be quite useful. that is how i truely internalize my information. but i find i like to first take some thoughts off the web, save them to word documents, then take what is useful, discard what is useless, and then make it essentially my own. from there the process of writing it down can be useful. not to mention when taking books notes as i was on a phycology book this system tends to be easiest and more efficient. --forge g