Tag: permanent notes
Types of notes
Knowing about the different types of notes you’re taking helps inform your approach to note-taking in general.
Sönke Ahrens: How to take smart notes
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens provides a practical overview of the Zettelkasten method, a structured approach to note-taking that streamlines the writing and learning process for academics. By capturing, refining, and interlinking ideas, this method enhances creativity, productivity, and critical thinking, transforming the way scholars engage with complex research.
Different notes have different purposes
Different notes have different purposes and knowing what kind of note you’re creating will help you figure out what you need to do with it.
Expanding a note stub into a permanent note
In this video I walk through the process of taking a note stub (i.e. a “dump” of content) and expanding it into a more comprehensive and useful permanent note.
Note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero
In this short video I demonstrate a strategy for note-taking with Hypothesis and Zotero while reading on the web. I try to show the early stages of creating links between ideas that I’m interested in, and eventually where I add those ideas into my permanent notes. One of the challenges of being an academic is…