The value of notes
- Gary Hinson
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
As I slogged my way through my digital master of the Cybersecurity Hyperglossary making assorted updates and corrections this morning, I noticed the frequency of 'value' and related word forms or terms (values, valued, valuable, invaluable, devalue, valuation, evaluate, evaluates, evaluated, evaluation ...).
This is just one of many such examples.
Scrabble players doubtless recognise the value of variants that extend a given string - 'UN-ZIP-PER-ING-S' being a notable game-winning example I remember from family games-by-candlelight during the UK miners' strike, long, long ago.
Anyway, I started systematically hyperlinking those terms to the entries for 'value' or 'evaluate', then realised that 'valuable' and 'value' both have several distinct meanings. I have ended up with seven definitions (so far) - one for 'evaluate' and 'evaluation', two for 'valuable' and four for 'value'.
The other day I mentioned in the blog that I have overcome my paranoid aversion to writing in printed books, scribbling notes in the margins of my personal copy to keep track of changes.
In the digital master, aside from directly making changes to the text, I'm using text highlight (from the font section of MS Word's home menu) or highlighter pen (from the Draw menu) to mark things I intend to address later, and comments (from the Insert menu) for notes.
If you are using the digital version of the Cybersecurity Hyperglossary, you may have similar highlighting or note-taking capabilities in your eBook reader - on Kindle and Acrobat Reader, for example, it is possible to mark a section of text and add a comment, dropping an icon on the page.
However you do it, I encourage you to make notes as you use the Cybersecurity Hyperglossary, enhancing its value and making it 'your trusted companion'.
[If you have a library or borrowed copy, keep a separate notebook rather than rudely defacing it. If it's too late already and you have irreparably damaged the book, please buy the owner a replacement unless you have their permission.]
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