How to take Digital Notes
Source (payed membership)
- Notetaking to extend/enhance our capabilities of our brains.
- Livelong personal knowledge management
What to capture
Inspiring - If it is something that is moving you. That is uniquely inspiring for me.
Useful - as you can use it as a building block for something later.
Easily Lost For stuff that is easily lost … and is unlikely that I can find it in future easily
Personal - knowledge that I created that is not easy to replicate and also not easy to find on Google
Example - when sending a highly prepared notes with an explanation. Store the content in your notes too. (as it is very likely to be used again)
Code
Capture
You capture highlights from eBooks, Articles, Webpages – sets you apart above 99.5% of people (who are not doing that).
Extract highlights … you can annotate
Read later apps
- Instapaper
Chrome extension
- liner … enables highlighting on a page
It is about setting up the last step of saving the capture to your notetaking app. Getting the information under my control and in my domain.
Organize
Waiting for having captured enough. Do the organization later. Start with little concrete parts and get it going
Distill
It is often just too much we saved (even if it is just the 5% and with high bar for capture).
Summarize the key points of the notes using Progressive Summarization (highlight, bolding and make it easy to jump around in the notes).
Express
Share, express, become a creator with your notes. Creator - bringing something good, beautiful or useful into the world.
It needs a private garden of knowledge. Spending to to create timeless information.
Why learning about Digital Note Taking - Information exhaustion
Stress levels increased by amount of information. FOMI - fear of missing information.
Mindset of a creator
Avoid just becoming a digital hoarder
PARA
Everything is project centric. And only some take active moment to reflect on all the projects that are going on. Getting conscious about the projects going on programs subconscious mindset and now on everything is paying more attention too.
https://fortelabs.co/blog/para
Next
- Course - Building a Second Brain … enroll in this course
- Learn about course platform Teachable
- PARA Method Notes
- [[Extend Your Mind]]
- Look at Instapaper – puts articles in a readable format (might be replaced with Remarable)
- can automatically sync with evernote regarding highlights made… (done with IFFT)
- Check good Screenshot apps
- Airrr.io
- Audible app has bookmark (extract these highlights later)
- Learn more about Progressive Summarization (via Blog from Tiago)
Questions
How can I annotate my highlights from Kindle with the
Linking
- MOC Building a 2nd brain
- [[How to Take Smart Notes]]
- Progressive Summarization
