How to Take Smart Notes (Ahrens, 2017) - LessWrong 2.0
After collecting notes for a while in the way most people do, commenting in the margins of a text or collecting handwritten notes by topic, Luhmann realised his note-taking was not leading anywhere. So he turned note-taking on its head. Instead of adding notes to existing categories or the respective texts, he wrote them all on small pieces of pape
... See moreSönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
Many bloggers and “life-hackers” have made a full-time job of suggesting how to organize your journal or how to most effectively Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply. We should take this advice seriously insofar as those practices have helped the au... See more
Many bloggers and “life-hackers” have made a full-time job of suggesting how to organize your journal or how to most effectively Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply. We should take this advice seriously insofar as those practices have helped the au... See more
Sign in - Google Accounts
Taking smart notes is the precondition to break with the linear order. There is one reliable sign if you managed to structure your workflow according to the fact that writing is not a linear process, but a circular one: the problem of finding a topic is replaced by the problem of having too many topics to write about.