I have a really big syllabus to cover...and making notes from class notes and combining them with reference books I read and consolidating them on to a single book....creates another book....dis is exact situation am facing right now....so my question is...how to minimize the note making period...bcoz I juz have 4 months left...and I have more material now and still can't figure wat should I prepare from before exams
What might you do to take notes when your hands are busy? This seems a little silly but I'm a mom of 3 little and I listen to a lot of things while I'm doing the more mundane tasks. Maybe I should try and form a habit of carrying a notebook everywhere.
@@kathleenhemingway1884 I feel ya!me too! Only mom of 4 littles 9 and under, we homeschool, and I have a home daycare with 3 year old twins, a 4 year old and 18 month old and a 1 year old . . .and a 6 year old about once a month or so on school days off . . .I read and make random notes on everything . . .and also while watching TH-cam and podcasts . .. but my hands are often full and I miss so much!
I'm struggling with the categorization part. I'm sold on this type of notetaking. My brain wants to make categories not ideas! I have a lot of notes and I'm probably just going to start analog and see what emerges!
This is a very old technique we used in college before the internet was created. I remember taking notes on 3x5 index cards when working on research projects while spending hours perusing the research material at the university's library. I love how this is now being applied to modern journaling/prep work.
The crux of this process isn’t just taking notes on 3x5 cards. The point is to transform what you read/listen to into your own words, ask questions, find contradictory information to currently held assumptions and then engage in a contextual dialogue with the other notes in the box. It’s not taking notes by topic nor is it filing notes by topic.
I learned this style of note taking from a high school teacher. He taught us to write notes this way for us to write our 10 page biology paper. It does help to be able to move your thoughts/notes around before typing out the paper so it has better flow. Thanks for the reminder!
I've done a ton of research on the best Zettelkasten content on TH-cam and honestly this is the best one I've seen. A lot of people really conflate creating a personal wiki or database with the real "content-creation" power that a slip box has. Realistically a slip box is the building blocks for the stuff (content) you'd add to a personalized database Ahrens mentions it being a conversation partner and you did a perfect job outlining that and the power it has. Great work!
To respond to your question of how to organize your cards, have you tried using the system that Ahrens describes in his book? The dynamic numbering system in which cards are filed according to relevance is a lot easier than it sounds, and has yielded some interesting trains of thought for me. Categorizing cards in a top down manner (I.e. work, life, etc) goes against the original idea of having trains of thought arise from the bottom up. The numbering system helps for this.
Ok... I’m back I got sidetracked by the book on the table “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey Had to pause the video and go check it out. After listening to 2 minutes of the preview..... it was immediately purchased as an audiobook...... I’m now an hour into it. Time to finish watching this video..... great job and great book recommendation 😉
Way to go Matt! and congratulations on being a full-time creator! I'll be taking this new form of note-taking and transferring them into my Commonplace book that I learned from Ryan Holiday. Keep up the great work!
Cool! I love your very true-to-yourself style productivity tips and congratulations for becoming a full-time creator! For an academic researcher like me, extensive time is spent on taking notes from reading. Organizing a large amount of topic-related notes, accumulated over a long period of time, is a huge work. I've tried Roam and Obsidian. They similarly provide a flexible enough structure and interconnectivity required for this task, but still substantial effort is needed if you want to develop and keep your system. I am still struggling with that. Hopefully one day your video can help with that :)
I ordered my bullet journal for next year.... learning a lot from your videos...thank you soo much.... it's been a week that I subscribed to Ur channel...but I wanna let u know that am grateful for the information u are sharing...thank you soo much😀
The great thing about bullet journal: you don't have to wait for next year, you can start today. It took me some time to find out what fits best to me. I started with different sizes and different organisation of my journal. I used different notebooks just to see how it works. Enjoy Bullet Journaling 🙏🏻
@@michaelh.gerloff3659 actually I am figuring out... trying different layouts...to know wat am comfortable in...so these two are my transition period...but thank you for your tip😀
@@reshmarao3048 I hope my comment did not read like patronizing you. I guess I am so happy with the Bullet Journal method that I start preaching everytime I think about it 🤓 After so many failed calendars and time management systems I was not to sure about the Bullet Journal. But after many years I think it works for me 😊 The look changed quite a lot but the Bullet Journal is still my way to stay connected with my days. (Leuchtturm is my one of my favourite brands.)
@@michaelh.gerloff3659 I understand u...coz I can put myself in Ur shoes😂....if someone asks me abt how audible changed u...I would be juz talking and sharing my experiences in similar manner...or even more...😀
Congratulations Matt! I've been following this topic with you, read the book, researched some internet info. Still haven't quite got my mind wrapped around it, but definitely intrigued!
Thanks for a great video! Do you have any thoughts about Obsidian? I have seen it said that Obsidian has an edge for those who want to go beyond collecting to using their notes to write, and you seem oriented to note-taking as a means to create something new.
The best method for anything, is the one that you WILL use. As we grow we change and this has an impact on which method works best at the moment. Note put in at 15:33 where people had asked you which method was BEST.
Congratulations 👏 I'm so happy and proud of your accomplishments. I just love and appreciate your content, it has made my writing ✍ life so much easier.
I think bullet journals are a task combine. They can do more, but they’re a replacement to post it notes first and foremost. They give organization and prioritization to task lists.
hey Matt - listen to Scott Scherper's podcast that has really valuable and useful info that relates to Zettelkasten, it will make the next step to organising your notes (you may have got there aready) - it will make sense and keep you analog. Analog rules.
I have started to take notes in the Linux command line. This opens up so many possibilites to creating a "second brain". How can we utilize Linux bash scripts, or even Python or another programming language to supercharge the normal topical tag lookup? Are there any programmers or anyone that has any thoughts on this?
Hi, Matt! I'm an aspiring TH-camr from Knoxville, TN. I found you through the Second Brain course and LOVE your channel!!! Backdrop question, how far in front of your bookshelf are you in this video? I love the setup!
Matt don't you add any reference number to your notes? ZK method has a proposal in this aspect of note taking and ordering. What is your approach in this matter? I am very keen to know your opinion on notes indexing.
What are your questions about taking “smart” notes?
I have a really big syllabus to cover...and making notes from class notes and combining them with reference books I read and consolidating them on to a single book....creates another book....dis is exact situation am facing right now....so my question is...how to minimize the note making period...bcoz I juz have 4 months left...and I have more material now and still can't figure wat should I prepare from before exams
What might you do to take notes when your hands are busy? This seems a little silly but I'm a mom of 3 little and I listen to a lot of things while I'm doing the more mundane tasks. Maybe I should try and form a habit of carrying a notebook everywhere.
@@kathleenhemingway1884 I feel ya!me too! Only mom of 4 littles 9 and under, we homeschool, and I have a home daycare with 3 year old twins, a 4 year old and 18 month old and a 1 year old . . .and a 6 year old about once a month or so on school days off . . .I read and make random notes on everything . . .and also while watching TH-cam and podcasts . .. but my hands are often full and I miss so much!
I'm struggling with the categorization part. I'm sold on this type of notetaking. My brain wants to make categories not ideas! I have a lot of notes and I'm probably just going to start analog and see what emerges!
@@mphillips6138 Drafts on iOS or even Goggle Keep - both have voice input, which is pretty good right out of the box to transcribe voice to text.
This is a very old technique we used in college before the internet was created. I remember taking notes on 3x5 index cards when working on research projects while spending hours perusing the research material at the university's library. I love how this is now being applied to modern journaling/prep work.
The crux of this process isn’t just taking notes on 3x5 cards. The point is to transform what you read/listen to into your own words, ask questions, find contradictory information to currently held assumptions and then engage in a contextual dialogue with the other notes in the box. It’s not taking notes by topic nor is it filing notes by topic.
I learned this style of note taking from a high school teacher. He taught us to write notes this way for us to write our 10 page biology paper. It does help to be able to move your thoughts/notes around before typing out the paper so it has better flow. Thanks for the reminder!
Congratulations on taking the plunge as a full time creator Matt. You’ve been such an inspiration to newer TH-camrs like myself. All the very best.
I've done a ton of research on the best Zettelkasten content on TH-cam and honestly this is the best one I've seen. A lot of people really conflate creating a personal wiki or database with the real "content-creation" power that a slip box has. Realistically a slip box is the building blocks for the stuff (content) you'd add to a personalized database
Ahrens mentions it being a conversation partner and you did a perfect job outlining that and the power it has. Great work!
Thanks Bailey! Really appreciate the kind words!
To respond to your question of how to organize your cards, have you tried using the system that Ahrens describes in his book? The dynamic numbering system in which cards are filed according to relevance is a lot easier than it sounds, and has yielded some interesting trains of thought for me. Categorizing cards in a top down manner (I.e. work, life, etc) goes against the original idea of having trains of thought arise from the bottom up. The numbering system helps for this.
Exactly
Updating my module on note-taking for first year students right now! I'm glad you can now make class content for me full-time. 😉
Ok... I’m back
I got sidetracked by the book on the table “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey
Had to pause the video and go check it out.
After listening to 2 minutes of the preview..... it was immediately purchased as an audiobook...... I’m now an hour into it.
Time to finish watching this video..... great job and great book recommendation 😉
Way to go Matt! and congratulations on being a full-time creator! I'll be taking this new form of note-taking and transferring them into my Commonplace book that I learned from Ryan Holiday. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for this, I tried reading the book and looking other explanations on youtube and sites. This is the first time I really got how it’s done.
5:33 start of information
Congratulations on cutting the day-job cord and plunging into this next new big thing!
These videos feed my creative soul! Congrats Matt on going fulltime! 🤩👏
Congrats on your leap into full time!
Question: how do you organize all your notes into a usable reference system?
I need so much help with this!
Thanx to u for suggesting this channel on your channel Amy😀
Cool! I love your very true-to-yourself style productivity tips and congratulations for becoming a full-time creator! For an academic researcher like me, extensive time is spent on taking notes from reading. Organizing a large amount of topic-related notes, accumulated over a long period of time, is a huge work. I've tried Roam and Obsidian. They similarly provide a flexible enough structure and interconnectivity required for this task, but still substantial effort is needed if you want to develop and keep your system. I am still struggling with that. Hopefully one day your video can help with that :)
Congrats on your transition to full-time creator! So exciting! 👏
I ordered my bullet journal for next year.... learning a lot from your videos...thank you soo much.... it's been a week that I subscribed to Ur channel...but I wanna let u know that am grateful for the information u are sharing...thank you soo much😀
The great thing about bullet journal: you don't have to wait for next year, you can start today. It took me some time to find out what fits best to me. I started with different sizes and different organisation of my journal. I used different notebooks just to see how it works. Enjoy Bullet Journaling 🙏🏻
@@michaelh.gerloff3659 actually I am figuring out... trying different layouts...to know wat am comfortable in...so these two are my transition period...but thank you for your tip😀
@@reshmarao3048 I hope my comment did not read like patronizing you. I guess I am so happy with the Bullet Journal method that I start preaching everytime I think about it 🤓 After so many failed calendars and time management systems I was not to sure about the Bullet Journal. But after many years I think it works for me 😊 The look changed quite a lot but the Bullet Journal is still my way to stay connected with my days. (Leuchtturm is my one of my favourite brands.)
@@michaelh.gerloff3659 I understand u...coz I can put myself in Ur shoes😂....if someone asks me abt how audible changed u...I would be juz talking and sharing my experiences in similar manner...or even more...😀
CONGRATULATIONS on your transition.
This is amazing!! Glad to see you succeeding on TH-cam, you’ve helped me so much throughout the years that I can’t thank u enough
Congratulations Matt! I've been following this topic with you, read the book, researched some internet info. Still haven't quite got my mind wrapped around it, but definitely intrigued!
Look forward to many interesting concepts in the future 👍
Your content is awesome, good to know that you are full time dedicated to this, and thank you so much :)
Thanks for a great video! Do you have any thoughts about Obsidian? I have seen it said that Obsidian has an edge for those who want to go beyond collecting to using their notes to write, and you seem oriented to note-taking as a means to create something new.
This was simply so great. Thank you Matt!
QUICK Quality Usable Inspiring Conceptual Keep
Congrats on your new found success! Best of wishes to you!
The best method for anything, is the one that you WILL use. As we grow we change and this has an impact on which method works best at the moment. Note put in at 15:33 where people had asked you which method was BEST.
Congrats! I'm so excited for you. I love your videos and can't wait to see more contents soon.
Congratulations Matt 👏🏾
Congratulations 👏 I'm so happy and proud of your accomplishments. I just love and appreciate your content, it has made my writing ✍ life so much easier.
I think bullet journals are a task combine. They can do more, but they’re a replacement to post it notes first and foremost. They give organization and prioritization to task lists.
hey Matt - listen to Scott Scherper's podcast that has really valuable and useful info that relates to Zettelkasten, it will make the next step to organising your notes (you may have got there aready) - it will make sense and keep you analog. Analog rules.
Super useful thanks ❤
Great video. Saw the MM book. I loved it.
Thanks for watching Vicki!
I have started to take notes in the Linux command line. This opens up so many possibilites to creating a "second brain". How can we utilize Linux bash scripts, or even Python or another programming language to supercharge the normal topical tag lookup? Are there any programmers or anyone that has any thoughts on this?
Curious what you thought about Greenlights. The audiobook was fantastic!
Hi, Matt! I'm an aspiring TH-camr from Knoxville, TN. I found you through the Second Brain course and LOVE your channel!!! Backdrop question, how far in front of your bookshelf are you in this video? I love the setup!
excelent video thank you
Subscribed. Your content is wonderful. Thank you.
Like before start watching.
I like this better: QUICK (quick-usable-illuminating-concise-keepers)
It sounds wonderful
Congratulations!
Good luck!
Matt don't you add any reference number to your notes? ZK method has a proposal in this aspect of note taking and ordering. What is your approach in this matter? I am very keen to know your opinion on notes indexing.
I hate acronyms, except as learning aids. 😂 Thank you.
NICE VIDEO!!!
So another way of thinking about how to make the note cards is basically finding the gold flecks of whatever your making notes about?
Congrats on the job! (sorry I'm late to finding you!) :)
Without even knowing I took notes of this video :)
Welcome to the world of the “unemployable”. Lol. In other words, congratulations!
Use Obsidian instead of paper cards
Will he PLEASE get to the POINT!
You’re just talking nonfiction book note taking, right? I’m curious.
Will you please get to the freaking point!
you take too long to make yr point.