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.
Through teaching this material over the years, I’ve found that I have to get people to radically reimagine what a note even is. People tend to think of the throwaway notes they took for tests in school or meeting notes they’ll never revisit again. But I think of a note as something far more long-term and reusable, which is why I introduced the definition you see here.
The idea to call notes "knowledge building blocks" came from my childhood obsession with LEGOs. Even though I had no idea what I would build in the future, I knew that the more pieces I collected in the meantime, the more prepared I'd be for whatever came.
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Rainer König
