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If you feel that you are working hard but making limited progress, Faced with an endless stream of new knowledge and concepts, I don’t know what to learn. I have collected many articles and taken many notes, but I cannot recall or use them. I have read some articles about "Knowledge Management" and "Second Brain", but I don't know how to do it. This book is written for you. This is a practical tool book on "how to take notes effectively", It contains "four major system modules, three major core methods, and two major underlying mental methods". As well as 11 specific suggestions and more than 40 real note-taking examples. Whether you are a teacher, lawyer, doctor, HR, civil servant, Or Internet operation, product manager, self-media person, entrepreneur, writer, editor, reporter... Every knowledge worker can use this book to find a good way to "work effectively". Make your notes memorable, accessible, and useful; let your future self use today’s notes.
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How to take notes
Preface: Taking notes is to strengthen your future self
Taking notes is not about mobile phone information, but about "preprocessing" the information
Three methods of "preprocessing"
Take notes in your own words: Let the information "scratch" a mark deep in the brain
Use tags to classify notes: network the knowledge in your notes
Continuous stimulation through review: let memory continue to deepen and knowledge continue to be internalized
Do it often, do it repeatedly
Recognize where you are going tomorrow and don’t look at where you came from yesterday
Learn from
Record in your own words, capture the core content, and don’t be a “porter of knowledge”
Classification is not planned, but grows naturally
develop
From the perspective of ordinary people, it focuses on how to use notes to support yourself, methods and cases
From a practical perspective, principles and suggestions on how to record, classify, and review are added.
Together with the recording method, it provides a way to obtain high-quality information.
In conjunction with the recording method, two underlying mental methods that are easily overlooked are supplemented.
Application: How to take notes to support your future self
Give "ideas" so you can use them
Give "clues" to provide you with new directions
Give you "basis" to support your actions
Recording: How to take notes and do information preprocessing
Take notes in your own words
Why you should take notes in your own words
Necessary difficulty to help you remember the notes you have taken
Think ahead to help you understand your notes
Tip 1: Start by recording your own thoughts
Seize the touching moment and record your thoughts
Moment 1: This inspiration is awesome
Moment 2: This information is useful
Moment 3: This feels so good
Tip 2: Record inspiring content
Inspiring content can inspire us to think
Misunderstanding 1: Taking notes for the sake of taking notes, the form is greater than the purpose
Misunderstanding 2: Lack of self-reminder after recording
Tip 3: Record counter-intuitive information
Counter-intuitive information can help our customers overcome mental inertia
How to Capture Counterintuitive Information
Tip 1: Active reverse thinking
Tip 2: Dig with curiosity
Tip 4: Record the things that make you emotional
Recording emotions can help us understand ourselves, stay healthy, and enhance decision-making skills
Two points for recording emotions
Point 1: Be honest with your heart and record your thoughts truthfully
Point 2: Not only record emotions, but also record the environment
Tip 5: Record your own practical experience
Recording practical experience can help us practice theory on paper and see the steps for growth.
How to record practical experience
Record truthfully to combat “cognitive dissonance”
Detailed records of the thinking process and results of every major decision
Tip 6: Refine the core content
Easily call up notes to practice your decision-making and thinking skills
How to refine
Understand the backbone first, then choose from it
It doesn’t hurt to remember part of it
Repeated deletions to reduce redundancy
Organize repeatedly to avoid bloat
Categorize notes with tags
Why use tags to categorize notes
Categorize them in advance to facilitate quick retrieval of notes
Implement network classification and improve extraction efficiency
Case 1: I.A.P.R method oriented to areas of improvement
What is I.A.P.R.
Inbox: used to store temporary, undigested content
Area: Used to mark things that help others if you do them, and you have to take responsibility for if you do something wrong.
Project: used to mark things that have a clear start and end time and goals
Resource (resource/interest): Used to mark content that continues to interest you but has no impact on others.
The four major labels complement each other and have a stable structure.
"Field" must be continuously improved through "projects"
Problems encountered in "Project" may be answered in "Field" or "Interest"
"Interest" may be converted into "field", and "field" may be outdated or converted into "interest"
Notes in the "Inbox" may be labeled with any of the three labels: "Field", "Interest" and "Project"
Two criteria for finding fields
Are you so obsessed with this that you want to do it even if there is no reward?
Is this thing helpful to others, not just satisfying yourself?
Case 2: Classification method oriented to assist decision-making
Internal Strength and Mental Methods: Knowledge for High Frequency Use
Long-term, enduring universal wisdom
Professional knowledge that is frequently used due to work reasons
Moves and routines: knowledge of low-frequency use
Index of application scenarios and knowledge points
Index of knowledge points and detailed content
Practical experience: thinking in practice and external feedback
Intelligence: important input in future decision-making processes
Decision recording: Record every major decision and result truthfully and objectively
What are the characteristics of a useful classification?
It's not a mechanical copy, but a relatively subjective one.
It is not formed once, but grows dynamically
Suggestion 1: Combining needs with others, learn from them first and then transform them
When borrowing, it is important to understand the logic behind the classification
When transforming, you should consider your actual needs
The process of learning classification → “Keep, break, and leave”
Suggestion 2: Maintain knowledge network in two steps
Create label instructions and set up note buffers
Clean up and maintain the network regularly
Remove or merge tags
add new label
Find connections between tags
Continuous stimulation through review
Why keep attacking by looking back
Fighting the forgetting curve
Promote knowledge internalization
Continuously optimize knowledge structure
Develop new knowledge and increase knowledge connections
Influence reality and use the knowledge in notes
Don’t be so serious, meet your past self
How to achieve better retrospectives
invest time
Review each time you record, it is important to be familiar with the context
Review daily or every other day, it is important to continue
Looking back on a weekly or monthly basis, it’s important to discover the connections
synchronous thinking
This note is related to what problem I encountered recently
Regarding this note, what new practices or new thoughts can I add?
Which other notes does this note relate to?
stay interactive
Increase
delete
rewrite
Collection: How to filter and obtain high-quality information
Examine your relationship with information
The important thing is not to rush to find high-quality information, but to take the initiative to obtain information.
The first challenge: avoid information addiction
The second challenge: Breaking out of the information cocoon
Three principles to take the initiative
No need to be an expert in everything
Focus on specific issues
Actively monitor and remain skeptical
Suggestion 1: Make subtractions and reduce your information sources
It’s not a lack of information, it’s a lack of attention.
Cut back on information sources that prey on your emotions
Cut back on sources of information that make you too comfortable
Cut back on information sources that lack concrete facts
Suggestion 2: Make additions and increase high-quality information sources other than books
Use others as sources of information and listen to practitioners
Focus on listening to practitioners’ review of failure experiences
Make sure you get first-hand information, not an interpretation
Take yourself as a method and practice it in the end
Go to the scene to observe
Get involved and let yourself feel "skin-cutting pain"
Tip 3: Do multiplication and look at information from multiple perspectives
Look down, examine concepts, and mine information below the surface
Look up, look for paradigms, and find new transferable ideas
Look around, follow the clues, and explore more high-quality information
Mental Dharma Chapter: Put me first and continue
Take me as the main one
With so much knowledge, what should we accumulate?
Someone else’s map has no own course
I become a wallflower because "I" am not strong enough
The core essence of note-taking: Put me first and support the future
Put me first and examine knowledge
"Life has limits, knowledge has limits." If we don't make choices, we will gain nothing.
You don’t have to learn the art of slaying dragons, but you have to ask yourself more, what is the real problem at hand?
Only by combining personal practice and supplementing theoretical knowledge can we firmly grasp knowledge
Build your question machine
A question machine refers to a certain environment in which we work, which can continuously raise questions to be solved.
Without the questioning machine, a person will no longer have a list of questions that naturally arise, and will not know what to learn.
Fortunately, we can redesign the question machine
Good questions are like "North Stars"
continuous
continuous value
Practice basic skills
What made Tang Seng become Tang Seng was not the scriptures, but the path to obtain them.
The road ahead is not crowded because there are not many people persisting
Achieve continuous system
Control your subjective will and make yourself willing to persist
Design an objective environment to make it easier for you to persist
Based on value management practices, enable yourself to persist
Tools: Use Flomo to accumulate your wealth of knowledge
What is Flomo: A "microblog only for yourself" or an "enhanced file transfer assistant"
Write cards in your own words: don’t worry too much about form or length, just focus on recording your thoughts
Use tags to classify notes: make good use of multi-level tags to provide flexibility and a clear hierarchical structure
Continuously review notes: use daily review, desktop widgets and other functions to complete the review
Use Flomo to record the flow of your thoughts: keep recording and the meaning will naturally emerge.