How to Take Smart Notes - Book on a Page

#sketchnote #BookOnAPage #zettelkasten #slipblox #excalidraw #obsidianmd #pkm ✏️ Sign up for the Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.... 🚀 Cohort 5 starts on August 19. 📔 We will be summarizing Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse into a book-on-a-page In this video, I provide a summary of Sönke Ahren's book, How to Take Smart Notes. A high-resolution PNG version, plus the standalone excalidraw file, and the Obsidian-Excalidraw .md version of this BoaP are available here: https://ko-fi.com/s/fe15f3e8f7 If you find my videos helpful, please say thanks by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt If you want to connect, you can reach me (@zsviczian) in the Obsidian Members Group (OMG) on Discord or on Twitter. The book on a page was created with the Obsidian-Excalidraw plugin. Timestamps -------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:10 It all started with a ... 00:32 Richard Feynman and external scaffolding 02:13 Niklas Luhman 04:08 Slips from Lunhman's slip-box 05:36 Notes are shipping containers of ideas 07:51 At a glance - The status quo in writing 08:43 At a glance - Zettelkasten 09:53 At a glance - Comparing the two approaches 15:25 Detailed process walkthrough 16:06 Be very selective 17:32 Permanent notes and literature notes 18:30 How permanent notes are organized 21:30 ZK is not a personal WIKI 23:26 Overview notes and Summary notes 25:04 The emergent approach 27:03 Project notes 27:50 By-products and parallel production lines 29:56 Common pitfalls 31:20 Read for understanding 32:40 Write your notes in response to existing ones 33:53 Develop ideas 35:19 Compare and contrast with the Double-Bubble Map 36:28 Think outside the brain 37:36 Ask questions 38:28 Study = Research 41:43 Manage your mental resources 42:30 Attention 43:51 Short-term memory 48:24 Motivation 50:18 Compounding interest 51:00 FLOW: Let the work carry you forward 52:42 Getting started 53:39 Closing remarks How to -------- If you'd like to create a similar book on a page summary, check out these videos: How to create a sketch-note summary of a book with Excalidraw + Obsidian + Progressive Summarization    • How to create a sketchnote summary of a bo...   Part 2 Behind the Scenes 1/2: Note highlights and initial sketches. Creating the BASB Book on a Page    • Part 2 Behind the Scenes 1/2: Note highlig...   Part 3 Behind the Scenes 2/2: Creating the final book on a page for Building a Second Brain    • Part 3 Behind the Scenes 2/2: Creating the...   Links -------- Video about the Double-Bubble Map:    • Part 3: Double-Bubble Map - Thinking Maps ...   Excalidraw Plugin: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian... Obsidian: https://obsidian.md My blog: https://zsolt.blog Sönke's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V5M8FR5/... Attributions ------------------- Icons were created by Flat Icons, iconixar, Pixel perfect, Freepik, Eucalyp, smashicons, ultimatearm, dDara, DinosoftLabs, and zafdesign from www.flaticon.com Drawing of Niklas Luhman: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...