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tonyshere's review against another edition
5.0
Yup. This is the Second Brain.
How to Take Smart Notes describes Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten, and creates a workflow around it to facilitate writing. By taking smart notes in a Zettelkasten-like system, you can connect them regardless of their place within it, which allows you to commit them to memory, but most often to access them later and notice the clusters of information that interest you. This workflow ensures that you will not be confronted with a blank page next time you sit down to write, which is one of the most intimidating things for a student or, rather, was.
Mixed with PARA, that's the shit.
How to Take Smart Notes describes Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten, and creates a workflow around it to facilitate writing. By taking smart notes in a Zettelkasten-like system, you can connect them regardless of their place within it, which allows you to commit them to memory, but most often to access them later and notice the clusters of information that interest you. This workflow ensures that you will not be confronted with a blank page next time you sit down to write, which is one of the most intimidating things for a student or, rather, was.
Mixed with PARA, that's the shit.
mhoskins87's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
2.75
Great overview of the slip-box note taking system. Kinda boring book. You could just read the first half and get all the useful information you’d need out of it. But the system itself is well laid out and I’d recommend this book to anyone interested in creating a slip-box system of their own.
seano312's review against another edition
3.0
My biggest gripe about this book is it’s misnamed. It should be titled “Why take Smart Notes.”
The HOW to take Smart Notes is fairly simple:
1. Whenever your reading, or studying, or watching a lecture, take notes.
2. Don’t highlight or quote verbatim. Put everything in your own words.
3. Make a good bibliography of everything you read. Label your notes with that info.
4. Transfer all your notes in a slipbox and follow the Zettlekasten method.
That’s basically it. Everything else in the book is good, but it’s about why you should do it.
Despite this book begin very low on the actual mechanics, it makes a very solid case of why the method works. It was an okay read, but if you aren’t already interested specifically in the Zettlekasten method, this is going to be a mighty snooze fest.
The HOW to take Smart Notes is fairly simple:
1. Whenever your reading, or studying, or watching a lecture, take notes.
2. Don’t highlight or quote verbatim. Put everything in your own words.
3. Make a good bibliography of everything you read. Label your notes with that info.
4. Transfer all your notes in a slipbox and follow the Zettlekasten method.
That’s basically it. Everything else in the book is good, but it’s about why you should do it.
Despite this book begin very low on the actual mechanics, it makes a very solid case of why the method works. It was an okay read, but if you aren’t already interested specifically in the Zettlekasten method, this is going to be a mighty snooze fest.
gcramer3's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.0
helpful and informative but it drags like a motherfucker