A review by tonyshere
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens

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.