How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

by Sönke Ahrens

Instead of struggling with adverse dynamics, highly productive people deflect resistance, very much like judo champions. This is not just about having the right mindset, it is also about having the right workflow.

Strictly speaking, Luhmann had two slip-boxes: a bibliographical one, which contained the references and brief notes on the content of the literature, and the main one

He did not just copy ideas or quotes from the texts he read, but made a transition from one context to another.

Fleeting notes are there for capturing ideas quickly while you are busy doing something else.

Fleeting notes are only useful if you review them within a day or so and turn them into proper notes you can use later.

Elaborazione Delle note temporanee

By focusing on what is interesting and keeping written track of your own intellectual development, topics, questions and arguments will emerge from the material without force.

Nothing motivates us more than the experience of becoming better at what we do.

We tend to think we understand what we read – until we try to rewrite it in our own words.

In pratica stiamo girando intorno agli stessi concetti - partire da zero e pesante, nel migliore dei casi noioso. Richiede recupero idee dalla testa - che partire da un buon workflow daun feedback positivo. Le idee sono già formulate e si ha l'impressione costante di migliorare. Si mette a frutto un lavoro già fatto in un momento in cui vi eravamo naturalme te interessati

Give Each Task Your Undivided Attention

This is probably just Deep Focus

Whether that means that the media adjust to our decreasing attention span or are causing the trend is not easy to say.

At first, this seems more optimization to me. 10 seconds are just enough to impress the memory

it is not a relentless focus, but flexible focus that distinguishes them.

It seems that both laser focus and willingness to skip parts is necessary

An expert in academic writing has a feel for the process,

Is this an intuition or are there evidences ?

Charles Darwin. He forced himself to write down (and therefore elaborate on) the arguments that were the most critical of his theories.

Face any theory that goes against yours