How To Take Smart Notes Book Review
Ahrens is a lecturer in philosophy of education at the university of duisburg essen and also coaches students academics and professionals with a focus on time management decision making and personal growth.
How to take smart notes book review. But that is covered in the first 20 of the book. Inspired by niklas luhmann 1927 1998 a well known german social scientist and his method for managing his research and writing ahren explores how to be more productive creative and organized using a system of deliberate note taking. How to take smart notes. In these 29 and a half years he published roughly another 60 books and hundreds of articles on a huge variety of subjects all of outstanding quality and with no other help than his note taking system.
So we never really learn a system for taking notes that we can use as adults. This is the first comprehensive guide and description of this system in english and not only does it explain how it works but also why. Oh sure you ll learn all about a super cool and super simple system for taking notes. Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading how to take smart notes.
The take smart notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note taking technique. Writing doesn t begin when we sit down to put one paragraph after another on the screen or page. This is a book about much more than a way to take smart notes. Taking his cue from the notoriously prolific niklas luhmann 1992 2000 who managed to publish roughly 60 highly influential books and countless articles within his 30 year career ahrens begins his reflections on note.
And taking notes while reading can supercharge all of these things if you do it right. But recently i picked up how to take smart notes by sönke ahrens. The take smart notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note taking technique. This is the first comprehensive guide and description of this system in english and not only does it explain how it works but also why.
How to take smart notes by sönke ahrens book review. Those ideas take smart notes and build a connected personal system of smart notes are the central arguments of how to take smart notes by sönke ahren a book i recently read and have become somewhat obsessing over. The first step to taking notes is to figure out why you are taking notes. And all of it was achieved by writing one smart note at a time.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. Read about the research on the system. The book is divided in three sections whereof the first one explains the formal tools of smart note taking.