Status Updates From How to Take Smart Notes

Gelegentlich wird dann doch ein wenig abgeschweift...🤷‍♂️

One of the most important book I have read this year. I wish I had read it 2 years ago when I rediscovered reading. By now, I would've have a slip box full of notes. Notes from those 40 books would've created a 'verbund' out of which, ideas and may be published papers. Anyway, I am so excited by what my reading future holds.

Spannend.

Man, this is dragging...

Test2

Honestly riveting so far

The repetition of the same ideas is getting a bit boring.

It also emphasizes the important of writing when consuming new information: that writing does not make the process of thinking easier, but makes it possible. That being said, the writings and notes need to be phrased in our own terms in order to make progress in thinking about a specific topic.
Moving forward with the system...

The book illustrates our thought process clearly when reading, writing, and retrieving information, so that a certain point of understanding can be reached while illusion and mistakes are to be avoided.
The Luhmann slip-box externalizes the thought process. By seeing it outside of our heads, we can forget the information and focus on thinking and elaborating ideas, to have “a mind like water” (Allen).

How do you read a book about how to take notes on your readings? Part way through you realize you should have been using the method itself as you read, instead of underlining and annotating the book. Too late. Or maybe not.

Trying to decide whether I want to use Evernote or actual index cards.

I'm a fraud.

This latest chapter that focuses on the psychology of attention and expertise was like pulling teeth to read, both because I’ve seen it in what feels like another thousand pop psych books and articles already, and also because it feels like the author is using five different examples to make their point when one would do. Yearning to get back to the practical bits!

So far so good. Really enjoying it, and I've started using the Slip-Box (Zettelkasten) method for note taking in Notion.

So far, not sure much of this will apply to me, but the general premise is quite inspiring and is also kind of making me miss writing papers!

I thought the book was about some guides to note-taking, like taking notes in point-form or something like that...and I’m totally wrong. The book does not simply show you how to taking note... it’s a guide to show you how to learn through writing, “Writing is Learning”, and how to make the stuffs you have read count.

I am half-way through the book and I find the content of the book stunning.

O foco por vezes insiste ser em pessoas que buscam produzir algum texto, as idéias e a proposta no entanto se aplicam perfeitamente à mentes ocupadas que precisam de uma estrutura ou sistema de arquivos para organizar o caos gerado pela enxurrada de informações que somos expostos diariamente.

Classifying in fleeting notes, permanent notes, and project-specific notes is the base for building a critical mass (from which ideas stem for a scientific article).

Classifying in fleeting notes, permanent notes, and project-specific notes is the base for building a critical mass (from which ideas stem for a scientific article).

148 pages read in 7 h 18 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

First read completed. Examples would improve the material.

29 pages read in 1 h 28 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

Getting better again, Ahrens is citing some interesting sources on mental models, biases, etc.

The book starts to be a bit repetitive at this point (end of chapter 11), let's see what new information the last chapters will be able to add.

Great great great stuff. Now I just need to put in the work!

Super good so far, very nice writing style!

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Fleeting notes > literature notes > permanent notes > bottom up development of project, research, ideas > compile notes about that idea > rough draft > edit, proof read 24-26

Great read for anyone who takes studying and learning seriously.

This book is fantastic! I still need to come up with a bibliography system that’s simple enough for my often convoluted mind.