Posts Tagged with "how-to-take-smart-notes"

Reference #1: How To Take Smart Notes

The ongoing creation of a Zettelkasten is described in three steps. First, make a note of any idea which occurs to you — these are called "fleeting notes". They are collected in inbox until you have time to process them.Read more →

Reference #2: How To Take Smart Notes

Energising work and a good workflow leads to a virtuous cycle. With each loop we are motivated to do more. The reverse leads to a vicious cycle — feeling stuck demotivates us and results in fewer positive, or more negative, experiences.Read more →

Reference #3: How To Take Smart Notes

The Zeigarnik effect is the tendency of our brain to keep unfinished tasks in our short-term memory until they're completed. David Allen's "mind like water" — a key part of his Getting Things Done methodology — is possible only once these open loops are closed.Read more →

Reference #4: How To Take Smart Notes

Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) found that students who took hand-written lecture notes understood the content better than those who typed their notes.Read more →

Reference #5: How To Take Smart Notes

Notes — whether hand-written or computerised — are critical for making complex intellectual endeavours possible. For complex thought to be possible, our mind must rely on external scaffolding.Read more →

Reference #6: How To Take Smart Notes

The Zettelkasten uses an index to provide entry points for discovery. Next to carefully chosen keywords are the numbers of a few (two to three) cards which relate to that keyword.Read more →

Reference #7: How To Take Smart Notes

In a Zettelkasten, as in creative and scientific pursuits, the imposition of structure is a benefit. Structure allows us to compare and make choices. Without restrictions, we would not be required to make trade-offs, to choose what is important to pursue.Read more →

Reference #8: How To Take Smart Notes

Learning — through thinking and writing — should not be a pursuit of more knowledge. It is about becoming a new person with different opinions and beliefs. This new person also has a different way of thinking.Read more →