Importance of notetaking
There are many reasons for me to put more effort into note-taking
- It helps save important lessons and thoughts for later to retrieve them
- By recalling and documenting important thoughts and lessons from the day as I meet them I reinforce the ideas.
- It’s a way to start seeing connections and lack of knowledge as well
- It helps with mental clarity to take some time to reflect and process information instead of just absorbing it. The idea of active engagement vs passive absorption, which I’ve used a few times in my thoughts on active vs passive content
Obsidian seems like a good way to easily start putting down some of these ideas and then reworking the documents later into a more refined map of ideas.
Elizabeth Filips has a video on second brain in notion, which I might still want to look into despite not using Notion?
Interesting to hear Ali Abdaal talk about in this video how “You Only Know What You Make”. This is an idea that I keep turning back to in many areas of life currently. It doesn’t matter how much content you consume if you don’t take control of the content and make it your own. This goes for many aspects of learning. Active recall is important.
Often many ideas are very fleeting, so it might make sense to actually have a physical small notebook where I do my immediate note taking when I get an idea but don’t have a computer nearby. So not a notebook for overall organization, but just keywords to write about later on.