From personal experience!
For example Why take good notes and How I take my notes is aimed at describe how I should take my notes... But in reality, that is bad note taking.
The goal is to understand, not to describe. And understanding comes from a jumble of mixed ideas. If you describe, then as you tweak your system, you have to edit the description of how to take notes.
If you don't have a description, you can tweak your system at no cost.
?applicability for other systems? Like governments? or education?