How to Take Smart Notes (A Beginner's Guide)

Links are the “checkpoints” of your thinking process.

Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That train is good as gone, right?

Links allow you to store this “train” and continue it indefinitely later.

Also, the big benefit of these links is that your working memory becomes free to focus on developing ... See more

Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language . If you w... See more

In the old system, the question is: Under which topic do I store this note? In the new system, the question is: In which context will I want to stumble upon it again? (Ahrens, 2017)