Levels of Understanding or Practice. A simple note-taking application.
By: Raghu Dinka Vijaykumar
Tags: Lifestyle, Understanding, Notes, Study, Learning

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Any work we choose to do, it’s challenging to get back to where we stopped and to restart. It’s always the case when one develops a new hobby or a new study. I tend to overcome these difficulties or have at least kicked off by three levels of practice.

Where the first level is when you choose to learn something As It Is. When you take up any course in your favorite platforms like Pluralsight, Coursera, or any other online platforms, it can vary from simple tasks that affect your routine. It teaches a civilized way of endeavoring and imitating whats needs to be done or achieved. The second level is after learning how it can be improved to be an example for someone to follow, either minimizing the time required to do the task or minimizing the resources used for the job. When one finds a way to maximize output by reducing the resources, then one has a chance to teach or showcase their findings, which is the third level of practice.

Taking it on a more straightforward note, what’s the maximum amount of resources you need to listen to a song, maybe a mobile phone and an earphone, or a desktop that stays on always playing new songs on an auto playlist or a small device with a predefined list of songs like a jukebox. There is an uncountable number of ways to achieve or perform a specific task. One should choose to minimize resources. Minimizing resources is a way to make normalcy in an ever-changing world. How often does one change mobile-phone with every new version of a similar device out in the market. What happens to old devices it gets collected as waste. With the choice of an example of listening to songs, analyzing the three levels of practice may not be straightforward,

But let’s try to examine with a single item like a mobile phone application. Learning to use a new mobile phone is the first level of understanding, choice of an app to use to achieve a task like a Note-taking. The second level of knowledge or practice is how often you use the app, how does it improve your lifestyle overall, the fundamental question is can you live without it. Sometimes the answer is yes if you use it more often than anybody else. If you don’t use it more often, you might be able to live without it.

Analyzing the usage helps to achieve a second level of understanding. How does one use the note-taking app? Putting down a list of groceries, or a bucket list of places to go, or a list of things to learn to do the next day. The developer of an app has a second level of understanding, who has a notion of how the app might be used and striving toward perfection in every sense thaught as useful. When a user realizes every most of the usages, the user has a second level of understanding.

When a user finds a new way to use an application and shares it with his friends and family, if they widely use the app with a modern approach, then the app has found itself a new way to use, which was not realized before either by a developer or the marketer. The third level of knowledge lies among the people who use it; most of the time, the third level of expertise remains stagnant doesn’t reach the creator of applications. Hence creators always value user feedback.

The three levels of understanding never limited but boundless in terms of any task and approach used to achieve that task. Note-taking is just an example very personal to my self. These levels of knowledge can be assimilated in every sense when one aligns with nature. Ideas pop in and out of the head, all the time when everyone realizes these levels of understanding. The time spent on understanding is time gained against rework or study that most of the time end in agony.