note-taking

“Every intellectual endeavor starts with a note.” — Sönke Ahrens


= (Personal) Knowledge Management


“One cannot think without writing.” — Niklas Luhmann

Writing is the only thing that matters.


Incremental Writing

“For me, writing means making a rough draft and refining it over a considerable period of time. My image of myself as a writer includes the expectation of an ‘unacceptable’ first draft that will develop with successive editing into presentable form.” — Seymour Papert

Progressive Summarization by Tiago Forte


不要記錄跟整理 Google 搜尋就能找到的資訊,這樣做最大的好處是,可以保證得到 up-to-date 的最新知識


Don’t just take notes (note-taker), but also make notes (note-maker).


Note-making is an active, engaged process for:

  • idea creation and connection.
  • the strengthening of note retrieval.
  • the clever use of spaced repetition.

Note-taking is building a relationship with your future self; journaling is building a relationship with your past self.

  • 日記記錄昨日,筆記召喚明日。
  • 寫日記,是回顧;寫筆記,是展望。
  • 寫日記是與過去對話,寫筆記是與未來約會。
  • 日記讓過去的我得以重逢,筆記讓未來的我得以預見。

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