Ask yourself, “What are the questions I’ve always been interested in?”

the average person’s daily consumption of information now adds up to a remarkable 34 gigabytes.

Digital notes aren’t physical, but they are visual.

Inspiration is one of the most rare and precious experiences in life. It is the essential fuel for doing your best work, yet it’s impossible to call up inspiration on demand.

Our careers and businesses depend more than ever on our ability to advance a particular point of view and persuade others to adopt it as well.

Organizing for Action: Where 99 Percent of Notetakers Get Stuck (And How to Solve It)

It’s time to elevate the status of notes from test prep and humble scribblings into something far more interesting and dynamic. For modern, professional notetaking, a note is a “knowledge building block”—a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.

Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information. Your professional success and quality of life depend directly on your ability to manage information effectively.

Instead of organizing ideas according to where they come from, I recommend organizing them according to where they are going—specifically, the outcomes that they can help you realize.