Link and transfer and associate between the notes you create.Make your notes permanent - connect them, develop them, support them, argue for and against them.Be selective with what you note down (especially quotes).Take fleeting notes while you read, watch or listen.If you focus your time and energy on understanding, you cannot help but learn.' The Method for Taking Smart Notes However, it lacks examples and focuses on theory which makes it kind of stiff.'Every individual endeavour starts with a note.' 'Learned right, which means understanding, which means connecting in a meaningful way to previous knowledge, information almost cannot be forgotten anymore and will be reliably retrieved if triggered by the right cues. Summary: I do think it is a useful book and it does introduce something new and shows how our traditional ways of note taking are not the best. This is done by questioning one’s own thinking routines in light of new experiences and facts.” “Learning, thinking, and writing should not be about accumulating knowledge, but about becoming a different person with a different way of thinking. I used to love flash cards when I was a student and the book does praise them but this method takes it a step further by linking the notes together and I think I kind of do that in my brain as a doctor as we study systems separately but we have to link them together in practice! ![]() I am not a student any more but I will be going into residency soon and I bet I can implement some of the things I learned from this book when I do study again. I went to YouTube and googled the method and the first video that came explained it in 5 mins in a very easy way, here is that video: This book reminded me of that and although I may be exaggerating a bit but the book suffers from lack of examples and focusing on the theoretical parts mainly. The method consists of note taking and then linking the different notes and archiving them in a way that makes them accessible with their references.ĭo you remember Uni’s lectures when doctors would spend hours explaining a concept in an outdated way and then you go to YouTube or to one of your friends and they explain it in a very simple way and you’re like why the hell did they not just say that. The author of this book did not come out with this method, it was founded hundred of years ago but the sociologist Niklas Luhmann used this method to publish tens of books and hundred of books which made it a more popular method. The book talks about the Zettelkasten method or the slip box method in a more user friendly terminology. I did feel that the book was directed towards academic writers more than the general population and even the writing style felt stiff to me. You see, the full title of this book is: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers. To be honest, this is one of the books that did not do that and it introduced me to a new idea but the writing felt a bit dry to me! I usually criticize non-fiction authors for stating the obvious and then being proud of preaching us with “fresh, innovative” ideas. And a fact no one can reproduce is no fact at all.” ![]() “An idea kept private is as good as one you never had.
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