A review by librarytech4
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens

4.0

This book does a fantastic job at explaining how to take notes for writing a book, an essay, or any type of research. The different methods he uses for this I can see as having great potential. I was hoping to get something out of this book for note taking in continuing education classes or when reading books to discuss, but he didn’t really go into that type of note taking. He mentioned at the very end of the book a method for cleaning up your ideas that I think could be helpful even outside of note taking and writing. He gave the idea to create a dump page where you can take ideas that don’t fit into what you are currently working on, but you don’t want to completely remove. This cleans up your ideas, yet allows you to still keep the ideas in writing. I can see this being helpful in project planning as well. This book was a great book even though I was not able to get what I was hoping for out of it. It has lots of great nuggets of wisdom.