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Maybe try a map?
First a hat tip to Austin Kleon. His most-recent post, Do you have a nemesis? included a mind map, which is the most-recent of the countless times I’ve encountered mind mapping. I’m a fan of Kleon for many reasons, not least of which is that he, like me, flouts the usual guidelines for the capitalization of one’s titles.
I’ve tried mind mapping a few times. (What’s that? Did I overdo it with software and processes? …yes, of course!) Today, I was feeling unmotivated to write for Open + Curious. I thought, “Just start. JUST START!” But I simply didn’t want to face the blank screen of the digital document.
Instead, I opened my idea garden wherein I capture interesting nuggets to be seeds for future writing. In my garden, I rarely (I first wrote “never,” but I don’t want to jinx myself) have trouble finding a nugget to write about. I grabbed my favorite pen, and flipped to a blank sheet in the little binder I keep. So much action! I felt like I was already writing. /s
On that mind map I wrote the “something new” at the center. It’s not a meaningless bit of meta; it’s the central idea from a captured nugget. At this point, staring at the paper with my pen in hand felt great, versus facing a digital document which always feels too structured for me to think in. (ref. Sönke Ahrens.) In just a few minutes of thinking and scribbling I had all those bubbles. Then I had a title. …then a route. …an outline. And from there the writing felt doable.
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Creating Smart Notes to Organize Your Thinking
In the world of continuous learning, taking notes is an essential part of the process. However, not all note-taking methods are created equal. In his book "How to Take Smart Notes," Sönke Ahrens introduces the zettelkasten note-taking system, a method used by German sociologist Nicholas Luhm
https://mikepaul.com/2023/05/15/creating-smart-notes-to-organize-your-thinking/
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The Tinderbox crowd has been doing lots of solid zettelkasten related material recently.
#meetup #sonke-ahrens #tinderbox #zettelkasten
https://boffosocko.com/2023/05/04/rsvp-to-tinderbox-meetup-2023-05-07/
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After Ahrens’ book I see an awful lot of people talking about “processing” books. There are too many assumptions about what this can mean and this hides many levels of inherent work involved in analyzing and synthesizing knowledge. I would suggest that we’re better off talking about reading them, annotating, excerpting, and thinking about them, or maybe writing about and combining them with other knowledge than “processing” them.
#annotations #ars-excerpendi #processing #reading-practices #sonke-ahrens