Status Updates From How to Take Smart Notes

What I've learned so far:
-Always read with a pen in hand and a notebook to take notes.
-Don't underline, highlight, memorise quotes fro a book you are reading.
-Take smart notes translating what you've read into your own words.
-Start moving from fleeting nots to bibliographic notes to the definitive zettelkasten notes.
-Write your tract based on the contents of your slip-box, which should be growing with each read.

Great read. I started reading curious about Zettelkasten, but this book is about much more: recent insights about creativity, the academic process, pitfalls of planning, and much more. Love it.

More of supporting text on advantages of the slip-box.

Writing Permanent Notes and it's advantage.

루만은 이 메모들로부터 금세 새로운 카테고리를 발전시켰다

Difference between reading, understanding and learning.

I agree so far with the common criticism people have with this book: There is very little practical advice on how to get such a system going. I believe that people who are new to the principle of the slip box would have appreciated a couple of examples.

"Why Taking Smart Notes" would have been a more suitable title, for that part is really good.

El Zettelkasten te permite aprender de forma cíclica y no de la forma tradicional que es línea. Y aprovecha al máximo la escritura para poder generar una red interconectada de conocimiento que no es estéril sino todo lo contrario, es una base sólida para volver ese conocimiento en algo útil y poder compartirlo.

Se me hace que el método Zettelkasten me será de mucha utilidad. Excelente libro por el momento.

Interesante...

Dumping process of notes to slip-box is well explained, and now they explained advantages of it. The bliss of "mind as water" was well explained, which I kind of knew from my earlier intro to Evernote days (2009/10).

Attention, Memory (short/long term) and Willpower effect of using slip-box was a good read too, but bit over done.

Note types made more sense. 1. Fleeting, 2. Permanent and 3. Project.

My current set of notes seems to be all Fleeting. Need to get to Permanent.

Nothing counts other than WRITING.

Introduced tools to be used. Zotero, seems to be a good one, but looks similar to GoodReads. And, Zettelkasten method and tool, may be adding tags to my current OneNote setup might replicate it. So far so good. Tools are in place.

On second chapter, a detailed walk through of the slip box and it's advantages was a good inspiring read. So far so good, but how do i transition to it with my current digital notes is something needs to be learned.

First chapter on Niklas Luhmann and his thinking system of Slip Box is a good start of the box. It nicely details Slip Box process used by him.

2022-04-23

Leer más no necesariamente lleva a más ideas. Tomar notas de una manera más inteligente puede crear esa base de conocimiento que tanto anhelas para facilitar tu proceso de escritura.

Viele gute Ideen.

What I am going to do after reading this book:
1. Keep my note taking simple
2. Investigate the relationship between exercise and learning/intellect
3. Take notes when reading nonfiction or classical/philosophical fiction
4. Start from bottom up when writing papers/ solving problems
5. Keep a notepad at all times to jot down ideas as they come to me

A very misleading title. There was some explanation but for an audiobook it was not enough. And just too much anecdotes and productivity guides for writers. And the guides did not explain how to work “freely”.

The idea seems good and I will look for a guide elsewhere.

Hasta ahora he tenido varios mindblowings por lo poco que llevo y también he subrayado varias frases e insights que seguro después tomarán todavía más valor :D

Stresses the importance of an external system to organize thoughts and ideas. Follows a sociologist I never heard of, Niklas Luhmann.

Rereading this one. It's time to take stock of my research methods. What a great book!

I’m about a quarter of the way into the book and the main idea of the slip box was already explained in detail. I wonder what will be contained in the next four hours of audio. I will update.

Finished through chapter 8.

Finished sections 2 and 3.

Chapters 1-4 read. Main insight, so far, is to have four tools:

- a tool to quickly note something (to sort/complete later)
- a tool for keeping track of references and notes on papers/material/...
- a tool for linking notes (and references) in a graph-based tool
- a tool to write texsts (e.g. papers and other documents)