How to Take Smart Notes
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2024-07-04 - 03:00
π The Book In 3 Sentences
- Zettlekasten method provides a framework that makes complex things easier to do.
- We might be taking notes wrong our entire life, using the methods provided in the book can change the way we look at note-taking.
- Very easy to understand and implement the ideas and concepts shown in the book.
π¨ Impressions
- This is one of the unique productivity books out there. Even though zettlekasten as a note-taking system has been around for many years, it really blew up after this book was published and finally gave zettlekasten method the attention that it always deserved.
π How I Discovered It
- Recommended to me by some Obsidian YouTubers, Can't remember who, but it was a while ago. Just didn't get the time to read it yet.
π Who Should Read It?
- Anyone who is a knowledge worker, or just wants to make more sense of the world, can read this and transform the way they take notes for life. I started using this method to take notes, and it has changed the way I formulate ideas as a whole.
π How The Book Changed Me
π‘ How my life/ thoughts/ behavior/ ideas have changed as a result of reading this book
- Frameworks are necessary to do things consistently, This book provides an amazing framework that can help you throughout your life. Even if you are not a knowledge worker who wants to publish papers or books, this way of taking notes is way better than the usual "write and forget" method that most of us use and struggle to find the write notes when we need them.
π My Top 3 Quotes
Problems rarely get solved directly, anyway. Most often, the crucial step forward is to redefine the problem in such a way that an already existing solution can be employed.
Economists developed hugely complicated products, but did not take into account the simple fact that price and value are not necessarily the same.
Sometimes the breakthrough in a scientific process is the discovery of a simple principle behind a seemingly very complicated process.
When even highly intelligent students fail in their studies, itβs most often because they cease to see the meaning in what they were supposed to learn (cf. Balduf 2009), are unable to make a connection to their personal goals (Glynn et al. 2009) or lack the ability to control their own studies autonomously and on their own terms (Reeve and Jan, 2006; Reeve, 2009).