The process of note taking is supposed to help you to internalize the main concepts and the authors ideas. Note takingįor me this is the most important step when dealing with sources of information in general. Let’s have a look at my current setup which has envolved over the last 2-3 years and definitely will change whenever I think I can optimize each step individually. You just need one system that fulfills your needs, is easy to use and will most probably still work in a couple of years. I don’t want to dissapoint you, but there is no perfect solution. I’ve spent the last years, trying to find not only the perfect note taking system but also the most proficient note storage system. After finishing a book, I always take some time (1-3 hours) to go through my notes, adjust already existing ones or link them to other ones. The worst thing you can do is to just passively read something, finish it and then you move on to your next reading. The idea is to interact with the content you’re reading about: Ask questions, try to link ideas in your mind, make notes, lookup complex definitions.
#Noteplan blog how to#
Try to apply some analytical reading, a concept I’ve read about for the first time in How to read a book (book).
#Noteplan blog professional#
Not only in a professional context, but also for private purposes it does make sense to actively read your books/articles. Making future-proof notes (a terminology used in a Zettelkasten system) is essential for me also because I use that content to generate new one. Each time I want to make sure I don’t have to re-read/review that source again when I think I might use an interesting idea/concept out of it. Additionally I tend to read about non-IT topics I’m currently In my job as a Security Engineer I need to keep up with new technologies and arising attack vectors. MotivationĪfter all: What’s all the fuzz about “note taking”? You have them somewhere, you use them somehow. Now let’s talk about the importance of having and maintaining a source of notes/thoughts. The idea is that I use my PKMS to lookup things and generate new content (like this post). A collection of ideas/thoughts can be just some bullet points with some random links (for me they’re not random, since I actively set those links in order to inter-connect notes).
#Noteplan blog full#
A blog post should be readable and contain full sentences. For me blogging and maintaining a public source of inspirations and ideas is not the same. Did I already mention what a Zettelkasten is about?Īnd what about me? Yes, I still blog but I also have a digital garden available at.Jethro’s Braindump (build with ORG Mode) and ox-hugo).While most of them seem to be just a collection of random notes, there are actually good ones where you can actually read through the thoughts/notes and learn something new.
And people nowadays don’t blog anymore: They take care of their digital gardens. I couldn’t anticipate to which extent personal knowledge management systems would become famous and trendy. At that time I was just playing around with Tiddlywiki and using it to collect notes during my CCNA course. Based on the recommendations in the thread I’ve put together a list of (digital) solutions (besides the preferred ones)Īlmost 6 years ago I was blogging about organizing and visualizing knowledge. This post caught some attention on this Hackernews thread.
If you’re more interested in the Tiddlywiki aspect of this post you can also check this Tiddlywiki Google Groups thread.