truth!

I love this piece of advice on note-taking from Dan Clery: "I use notebook and pen and my own bastard shorthand. One of the benefits of this not very speedy technique is that it creates voids that the interviewee feels obliged to fill. If they finish what they were intending to say, and you don’t immediately come back with another question because you’re scrawling down their words, they’ll often just keep going and say things they might not have wanted to say or make off the cuff comments that provide good colour."

This is so true. So true, in fact, that is usually happens to me.

The benefits of being a beginner, I guess.