Better Thinking over Better Note-taking

  • In Note-taking, Making notes is the easiest partMaking notes is the easiest part

    It's easy to make notes.
    And there are many easier ways to make notes — like Copy-pasting or Quoting.
    What we miss while doing that is the intention of note-taking.
    Use note-taking to deve...    , especially one with a focus and subjective intention. The content is already structured, primarily polished, and made with a purpose of revising than reusing or thinking it over.
  • Normal note taking fails to connect ideasNormal note taking fails to connect ideas

    In standard note-taking, we sort by topics and sub-topics, building a hierarchical tree structure of knowledge. The information is sorted and has a "flow," but chances of connecting two differen...
  • The goal shouldn't be to take notes, but should be to think effectively.

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