How to Take Smart Notes

The book I read that introduced me to Zettelkasten. I read it in early 2021.

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Introduction

❝ You can use this pool of notes not only to make writing easier and more fun for yourself, but also to learn for the long run and generate new ideas.

❝ most of all, you can write every day in a way that brings your projects forward.

❝ any improvement in the way we organise the everyday writing, how we take notes of what we encounter and what we do with them, will make all the diff

❝ good, productive writing is based on good note-taking.

❝ Getting something that is already written into another written piece is incomparably easier than assembling everything in your mind and then trying

Chapter 1: Everything You Need To Know

❝ “I never force myself to do anything I don’t feel like. Whenever I am stuck, I do something else.”

❝ A good structure enables flow, the state in which you get so completely immersed in your work that you lose track of time and can just keep on going

❝ The challenge is to structure one’s workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward. We do not want

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