I've been organizing my notes both by individual sword and by category of information. Observations I group together like this...

[He points out a series of notes he's jotted down, grouped neatly together]

And historical information here. [He points to another stretch of page, littered with notes not necessarily ordered by date] There are a lot of conflicting records, so I've been grouping those together in order to compare them. It becomes a matter then of evaluation, which takes a critical eye.

[And naturally, he welcomes his daughter's take on it]