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A review by bovolon
How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens
5.0
I read this book twice. The first time I read it as a regular book, found it interesting, tried to implement some principles on Roam and later Obsidian, got disappointed since I'm not an academic... So, for me, a 3-star book.
Then I read David Kadavy’s Digital Zettelkasten, and by comparing it with this book the method finally clicked. So I came back to Taking Smart Notes, this time actually taking smart notes while reading it, and was surprised to find such a dense amount of ideas on its pages. Much more than note taking, the author has a lot to say about reading, learning, writing, thinking, biases, decision making… and much of it can be connected to other ideas on our own slipboxes.
My suggestion: read it once. Understand it. Learn to take smart notes. Then come back to it. You may be surprised by what you can find within, while applying the very principles discussed within. Highly recommended.
Then I read David Kadavy’s Digital Zettelkasten, and by comparing it with this book the method finally clicked. So I came back to Taking Smart Notes, this time actually taking smart notes while reading it, and was surprised to find such a dense amount of ideas on its pages. Much more than note taking, the author has a lot to say about reading, learning, writing, thinking, biases, decision making… and much of it can be connected to other ideas on our own slipboxes.
My suggestion: read it once. Understand it. Learn to take smart notes. Then come back to it. You may be surprised by what you can find within, while applying the very principles discussed within. Highly recommended.