The main goal of smart note-taking is not to stay informed. It’s to increase understanding and build your knowledge base, which you can apply to your creative projects and productive work. You learn best when you connect ideas and evaluate the information. Does this confirm, contradict, or add to your existing knowledge? Have you mastered the subject enough to explain it or teach it to others through a presentation, an article, or a paper? How will your knowledge hold up in a test or in a real-world situation? In episode 17 of The Incrementalist podcast, you will learn:1) The difference between being familiar with a subject and actually knowing it2) Why writing is a core part of the thinking process, i.e. the medium in which you think and not the outcome of your thinking3) The Zettelkasten slip box method for smart note-taking, which was invented by Niklas Lumaan -- a German sociologist who published at least 58 books and nearly 400 scholarly articles on various topics4) The three types of notes to make - Fleeting notes, e.g. highlighting and underlining text; jotting down quick notesLiterature notes, e.g. writing notes in your own words for future projectsPermanent notes, e.g. storing notes in the Zettlekasten for long-term knowledge5) The "reference slip box" is for source citations and brief notes while the "main slip box" is for permanent notes6) The profound benefits of having an external system for note-taking and managing knowledgeyou have a standardized, process-oriented method for organizing ideas and retrieving themyou create bottom-up work so you're not starting from scratch or with a blank slateyou avoid the linear path to writing and instead pull from existing notes and ideasyou learn more and apply more from your readingyou become a more critical and original thinkerResources cited: Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book WritersMusic by:Sebastian Brian MehrDyan WilliamsCheck out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small StepsVisit website: www.dyanwilliams.comSubscribe to productivity e-newsletter

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