Digital Smart Notes Part 2: Exporting Highlights to Roam Research With Readwise
To create literature notes, you need a reliable system in which to process your fleeting notes. That system, for me, is Roam Research.
roam researchDigital Smart Notes Part 1: The Capture Toolkit
Even the best tools won't make much of a difference if they are used in isolation. Only if they are embedded in a well-conceived working process can the tools play out their strengths. There is no point in having great tools if they don't fit together. - Sönke Ahrens, "How to Take Smart Notes.
smart notesPersonal Growth and Intellectual Junk Food
When we are fearful or stressed, we tend to want easy to digest content that plays into our own confirmation bias. It's human nature. I call this "intellectual junk food."
personal growthKindness Outside the Echo Chamber: Practicing Empathy on Social Media
"No human being is responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character." - Sam Harris, Free Will
empathyPackaging Your Thoughts Using Roam Research
"We need a reliable and simple external structure to think in that compensates for the limitations of our brains" - Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
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