Evergreen Note on Note-taking Strategies and Their Practical Implementations
This is an evergreen note that I will be revisit regularly to develop a comprehensive list of note-taking approaches including their practical implementations in various software tools. This post will serve as an elaborate table of contents, including a brief introductory discussion on the importance of note-taking, followed by a high-level walkthrough of each method. Links to posts and videos with detailed examples and descriptions will follow over the coming weeks and months.
Think is important because action you take based on thinking will be more productive than action based on ignorance. If you learn to think through writing, then you will develop a well-organized, efficient mind. (Dr. Jordan B. Peterson)
By synthesizing the information you come across during the day, into a set of useful notes, you engage your mind at a deeper level, beyond simple understanding. Taking quality notes will not only help you remember what was said, what you have read or who has what action, but will also sharpen your thinking and improve your decisions and actions.
We cannot manipulate many ideas in our minds at the same time. It is simply the case that we can only operate with a maximum five to ten thoughts in our minds at the same time. The good news is, you can write down much more than you could ever hold in memory. Thus, you have an efficient way to work around the limitation of your ability to process information. Through writing, you build the capacity to consider a higher number of ideas at the same time. When you put ideas into writing, you develop power over them. You can move them around, change them, discard them, analyze them word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph.
