A review by deepti_22
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens

2.0

God. How did a book on smart notes become a book of disconnected notes? I picked this book because I wanted some clarity on Zettlkasten method of note-taking. The method is useful and yes, it certainly gives more than the average linear process of academic writing. But it is presented in the most boring language. It is like the writer made notes on the why of smart notes instead of the how and then organised it haphazardly.

A practical demo, interactive links to notes and a glimpse of the draft that came out of this process, should have been a part of this book. Instead it is a boring thesis on why smart notes is necessary!