How to Take Smart Notes
Focus
Read with awareness
from How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens
How to Apply This
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Read with a pen in hand.
Take notes; write your comments, thoughts, and ideas about the text. Write in your own words to develop your understanding of the text. -
Discern between the relevant and irrelevant.
Rely on your own judgment for what is important and what is not. Practice by consistently taking notes.
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