#Quick notes on a book how to
#Quick notes on a book archive

Complexity is an issue - even if you’re just keeping track of what you read, organizing your notes, and developing your thoughts, over time things will become increasingly complex, especially because it’s not just about collecting thoughts, but about making connections and sparking new ideas.

The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward”. How do you plan for insight, which by definition, cannot be anticipated? It’s a huge misunderstanding that the only alternative to planning is aimless messing around. Having a clear structure to work in is completely different from making plans about something.” “We need a structure that breaks down ‘writing a paper’ or ‘writing an essay’ into small and clearly separated tasks, so we can do one thing at a time.

#Quick notes on a book how to

Want to get a pdf of it: How to take smart notes? 1. I have written a whole article about doing it by explaining the method described in this book these days using different apps. It is the art of building a second brain as termed by Tiago Forte.

#Quick notes on a book archive

By taking smart notes and keeping an archive of all the information you have been exposed to, you are exposing yourself to the serendipity to hit by which you can create something unique. The one where more ideas accumulate in excess becomes your writing. But it is done passively by looking in a stored treasure of thoughts and ideas. It tells that it’s not the writing that is done actively. Get the book (affiliate link) : How to take smart notes?Īll the writing and creativity books around there are telling and teaching you that to write or create you have to come with an idea. If you are a writer then it is very important for you. For that, we need an external system where we can put out thoughts and insights we are exposed to. We are gonna forget the information stored in our brain anyway. It is about taking in ideas, absorbing them and connecting them in unique ways, and creating new things.īut how to keep things in the brain? We all know our minds are a dumb ass. Creativity is not creating something out of the thin air.