The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note-taking technique: the Zettelkasten. ![]() It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward. This book helps students, academics and other knowledge workers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers". The first edition was published under the slightly longer title "How to Take Smart Notes. They are books to return to often, for the parts you need at the moment.īut if you were taught as I was ("Start at the very beginning and when you come to the end, stop") it’s very easy to get bogged down in these and become frustrated when either Ahrens or Van Doren takes an extended side-track for a rant (Ahrens) or excruciating academics (Van Doren).This is the second, revised and expanded edition. Especially these two, which - while very useful - are not all useful all at once. Slow down and read the important bits carefully.Īt this point you are well-suited to start a) learning and developing your note-taking practice and b) read more about note-taking without getting bogged down in individual books. Inspectional reading will help with this. Then, use the inspectional reading skills on "Smart Notes." Sönke Ahrens’s book is awesome, but it is repetitious. Decide if there's anything in the book immediately useful, read that. Read Part One of "How to Read a Book," especially chapter four: "Inspectional Reading." If this is new to you (it was to me), stop at this point and immediately practice those skills you just learned on How to Read a Book itself. Since you already have these, here’s my suggestion based on my experience with both. I think if we put 100 people in 100 rooms with nothing but computers, they might come up with 100 different PKM workflows. They use most of the same principles that Obsidian users do. You might also review comments and forums for apps like Roam. Different but sometimes similar concepts exist, such as evergreen notes, atomic notes, Zettlekasten, PARA, LYT, concept discovery, etc. I'm not sure if there is a foundational book unless we define what we're seeking to learn. There's also another (Book on a Page) that's a visual summary of " Building a Second Brain." Here's a list of his other videos ( link). ![]() The documentation doesn't have the tips and tricks he may show in videos. He was doing PKM long ago using the TheBrain app which used to be "Personal Brain." As his videos show, he answers questions when he can.Ī lot of what I learned about the Excalidraw (plugin) and Excalibrain comes from his videos. The Excalidraw plugin developer explains how he's changed the way he's worked for years. Even the experienced PKM users may constantly revise and update their workflows. He uses graphics to present a summary of the book's principles in a visual way. The Excalidraw plugin developer created a "Book on a Page" about " How to Take Smart Notes." You might pick up some tips even if you read the book.
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