Productivity
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
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Don't organize your notes by project — build one growing web of ideas in your own words. The writing then almost falls out of the slip-box.
A practical guide to the Zettelkasten ("slip-box") method that sociologist Niklas Luhmann used to publish 70 books, showing how a system of atomic, linked notes turns everyday reading into a compounding engine for writing and thinking.
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