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Digital Smart Notes Part 5: Creating Content with Smart Notes
If you haven't written along the way, the brain is indeed the only place to turn to. On its own, it is not such a great choice: it is neither objective nor reliable – two quite important aspects in academic or nonfiction writing. -Sönke Ahrens, “How to Take Smart Notes."
roam researchDigital Smart Notes Part 4: Creating Permanent Notes In Roam Research
...the audience here consists of our future selves, which will very soon have reached the same state of ignorance as someone who never had access to what we have written about. -Sönke Ahrens, "How to Take Smart Notes
roam researchDigital Smart Notes Part 3: Creating Literature Notes in Roam Research
They struggle because they believe, as they are made to believe, that writing starts with a blank page. -Sönke Ahrens, "How to Take Smart Notes"
roam researchPersonal 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 growthPackaging 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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