How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

Feb 18, 2021

🌟 The Book in 3 Sentences

  1. It is about a method of note-taking called Slip Box.

  2. It will give a detailed explanation of how to use the Slip Box Method.

  3. This book also teaches to take notes for remembering later.

🧵 Impressions

It is a good book that explains the note-taking method called Slip Box, with a lot of examples. It is for people who want to become writers.

How I Discovered It

I discovered this book on Ali Abdaal’s YouTube channel.

Who Should Read It?

People who read a lot and like taking notes.

🍇 How the Book Changed Me

  • I have been using Roam and Notion for note-taking, which has a similar feature called bidirectional linking.

🎋 My Top 3 Quotes

  • Everybody is motivated when the finish line is within reach

  • Deliberate practice is the only serious way of becoming better at what we are doing.

  • “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.” -Steve Jobs

📕 Summary + Notes

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