I liked the quick comment that Goffman made about not taking too many notes. I have had the personal experience of being buried in copious notes that really weren't that useful. Since the work I do is generally recorded I've found that it is better to take very few notes and only note key ideas and link them to the time so I can go back and capture a video clip of the finding. . . and then when I read a bit about being pressured *to* take notes I felt a connection with my own work. I'm often in a position where when a respondent sees that I'm taking notes and they say something that is completely useless to my objectives, there are times that I have to clutter up my notes with their comments so I don't offend them. :-)
-Kyle
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