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And then I found your book, How to Take Smart Notes, and went, "Wow, being a college professor." When I saw the idea that somebody finished a Ph.D. You did about the subtle Casady method and Nicholas Lumen. I found out about your work, and to be honest, I have no idea how I stumbled upon this lecture. Srini: It is my absolute pleasure to have you here. Sonkhe Ahrens: Thank you so much for having us.

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For more, check out our 500-episode archive at. I'm Srini Rao and this is the podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who have started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. Srini: Welcome to the unmistakable Creative podcast. And I think that's the beauty of this forced elaboration that comes with it that you constantly come up with new questions. Because instead of saying there's something else that's somehow related to this, you justify it by explaining to yourself, but on the other note there's contradicting information.Īnd that triggers the question, where is the empirical data wrong, or is that a different perspective? And now, you have to really engage in the questions and it also produces a lot of questions.

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And it's fun to do, but if you don't think through the connection and make it explicit, like your suggestion to put a link to another node, embedding the link in a full sentence makes all the difference. Original ideas that deserve their own permanence to expand and interrelate with other notes.Sonkhe Ahrens: I think there's a trap and these tools, and a lot of the digital tools, make it very easy to link between notes and to connect them. Permanent notes (Evergreen) - Notes detached from specific time, content, or material.Rewriting in your own words is key to understanding. Be selective with quotes, and don’t copy verbatim. Literature notes - When reading something, make notes about the content.They shouldn’t cause distraction or get you off track, just put them in the inbox for later processing to the slip-box. Fleeting notes - Reminders of what’s in your head.

Note-taking isn’t perceived as a critical component to learning because of the delay between the act of taking notes and noticing its impacts - if we do it poorly, we don’t notice that impact until much later.

Writing is the facilitator of thinking, reading, learning, and understanding.

A quality system for idea-generation provides a compound interest effect - ”learning facilitates learning.” Key Takeaways Great writing is built on a strong foundation for effective thinking, which the slip-box is intended to help us improve on. In the final third, Ahrens dives into an articulate, succinct overview of the steps to good writing. Studies on successful, productive people show that success is less attributable to willpower and more the result of creating smarter working environments conducive to focus, retention, and recall. Fleeting, literature, and permanent notes form a loose hierarchy (hierarchical in long-term value). Not all notes are created equal, each plays a role in the complete system. The book covers the various note types and the role they play in the slip-box system. As Ahrens says, you want to “let ideas mingle” in the slip-box, not be separated from one another in discrete notes about different resources. Lots of material we think of as original is really combining old ideas by stitching them together in new ways. Connecting ideas between sources is a core source of knowledge synthesis. The slip-box concept organizes thoughts in an organic way, allowing ideas to build upon one another regardless of their source. The general idea is that the taking of notes in reading and research - the act of writing down thoughts or ideas - is the medium of learning, not merely a supportive technique. How to Take Smart Notes is a dive into German sociologist Niklas Luhmann’s “slip-box” system (known in German as “ zettelkasten”).