How to take useful notes (How to take smart notes, Zettelkasten) - III
I keep telling you about the book. ZettelkastenThe one I talked about in my posts. 1 and 2. And here we are talking about the first three steps to a successful letter, which, in the opinion of the author of the whole book. 6 stuff **Separate and interrelated tasks
- Read it for understanding.
- Take useful notes.**
- Develop ideas.
- Share your insights.
- Make yourself a useful habit.
Part part 3 Six Steps to a Successful Writing
9. Separate and interrelated tasks Multitasking is a myth and the effectiveness of multitasking is much lower than focused work on a single task. But nowadays, people are rarely able to focus on one topic for a long time - distractions and disorganized workflow interfere. And with this can help the notebook, which not only provides the structure of the work, but also forces the user to consciously switch attention between tasks of writing notes. The author says that no plan will help us write well and his thesis is: "Don't make plans, become an expert." The author talks a lot about science and scientific works and shares his vision of the main idea of science: “to acquire knowledge and make it public.” In fact, the preparation for writing should begin with the acquisition of knowledge. Another thesis is devoted to the liberation from excess and in his memory. (particularly short-term), which is not rubber. To confirm the effectiveness of the advice, the Zeigarnik effect is given, when unfinished tasks tend to occupy short-term memory until they are completed. But if you write them down, the brain makes no distinction between the task done and the task postponed:) And the last piece of advice is, "Reduce the number of decisions." This way we can save our willpower and avoid “ego exhaustion”, which means that it will be easier for us to get the job done. In fact, an established system reduces the degree of freedom and reduces the variability and number of decisions.
10. Read for understanding Cool Tips for Effective Reading Read with a pen in your hand - here the main idea is not just to copy the text, but in a meaningful dialogue with the readable texts. I often write directly in the margins myself, leaving links to other ideas, and sometimes todo notes:) Of course, in the context of Zettelkasten, this is all the author calls a preliminary step before creating a permanent note that will fall into the box. Think more broadly – the point is to try to avoid “confirmation bias” and considering a wide range of hypotheses. In the box method, we go from interesting ideas and notes, and then collect text from them. This allows us to suffer less from confirmation bias than if we start by deciding on a hypothesis or problem for which we want to match the facts and write the text:) Separately, the author talks about the importance of finding facts that contradict our hypothesis. Find the essence - here the author talks about critical thinking (You can read a separate book about it.) Learn to read - it is important not only to read, but also to try to reformulate what you read and see gaps in understanding. Learn by reading - the author talks about real learning, which helps to improve understanding of the world, rather than passing a test (It is interesting that I have always been interested in real learning since childhood.). Learning requires effort and reflection and taking notes is great for learning.
11. Take useful notes. It’s about writing notes one at a time, thinking outside the box, and vice versa, about the function of notes as a checksum of the meaning of what we read. Further about questions to themselves, and why all the text read fit into such small representations in the form of a few notes and why exactly on those topics that were there. How notes work as external memory and help connect different contexts (Here it is possible to cross-link different sources on the topic of interest to us.). And finally, how to add constant notes to the box:)
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