How to Take Smart Notes

Outline
- Introduction
  - 介绍写作的普遍性和重要性，以及面临的困难：写不出来
  - 当下的写作指导书籍从两个方面入手：1. 技术细节 2. 心理辅导
  - 提出观点：写作不是研究、学习等的产出，而是研究的媒介
  - 解决写作难题的重点是在正式写作前做的笔记（功夫在前面），Smart Notes 可以降低写作的难度，以及需要的纪律和自控
  - 1 Everything You Need to Know
    - Good Structure, different from making plans
    - 1. 1 Good Solutions are Simple – and Unexpected
      - 使用 slip-box，改变日常 routine
      - 类比 [[GTD]]
    - 1.2 The Slip-box
      - [[Niklas Luhmann]]
    - 1.3 The slip-box manual
      - 2 types
        
        bibliographical one, which contained the references and brief notes on the content of the literature
        
        and the main one in which he collected and generated his ideas, mainly in response to what he read
  - 2 Everything You Need to Do
    - 将写作的任务分解为，笔记，组织初稿，修改初稿
    - 2.1 Writing a paper step by step
      - Making fleeting notes
      - Make literature notes
      - Make permanent notes
      - add your new permanent notes to the slip-box
      - Develop your topics, questions and research projects bottom up from within the system.
      - After a while, you will have developed ideas far enough to decide on a topic to write about.
      - Turn your notes into a rough draft.
      - Edit and proofread your manuscript.
  - 3 Everything You Need to Have
    - To have an undistracted brain to think with and a reliable collection of notes to think in is pretty much all we need
    - 3.1 The Tool Box
      - You need something to capture ideas whenever and wherever they pop into your head.
      - reference system
      - The slip-box
      - The editor
  - 4 A Few Things to Keep in Mind
    - 正确地使用工具
- The Four Underlying Principles
  - 5 Writing Is the Only Thing That Matters
    - 强调写的重要性，但并不意味着其他可以忽略，只是明白写的重要性，可以改变我们做其他事情的方式
  - 6 Simplicity Is Paramount
    - 集装箱的发展历史
    - old way taking notes similar as shipping before container
    - slip-box like container
    - 三类笔记
      - Fleeting notes, which are only reminders of information, can be written in any kind of way and will end up in the trash within a day or two
      - Permanent notes
      - Project notes, which are only relevant to one particular project. They are kept within a project-specific folder and can be discarded or archived after the project is finished
  - 7 Nobody Ever Starts From Scratch
  - 8 Let the Work Carry You Forward
- The Six Steps to Successful Writing
  - 9 Separate and Interlocking Tasks
    - 9.1 Give each task your undivided attention
      - 媒介让我们的注意力长度不断降低
    - 9.2 Multitasking is not a good idea
      - 没有人可以多任务工作
      - 长期多任务工作反而会损害多任务的能力
      - 心流，专注一件事情
    - 9.3 Give each task the right kind of attention
    - 9.4 Become an expert instead of a planner
    - 9.5 Get closure
    - 9.6 Reduce the number of decisions
  - 10 Read for Understanding
    - 10.1 Read with a pen in hand
    - 10.2 Keep an open mind
    - 10.3 Get the gist
    - 10.4 Learn to read
    - 10.5 Learn by reading
  - 11 Take Smart Notes
    - 11.1 Make a career one note at a time
    - 11.2 Think outside the brain
    - 11.3 learn by not trying
    - 11.4 Adding permanent notes to the slip-box
  - 12 Develop Ideas
    - 12.1 Develop topics
    - 12.2 Make smart connections
    - 12.3 Compare, Correct and differentiate
    - 12.4 Assemble a toolbox for thinking
    - 12.5 Use the Slip-Box as a creativity machine
    - 12.6 Think inside the box
    - 12.7 Facilitate creativity through restrictions
  - 13 Share Your Insight
    - 13.1 From brainstorming to Slip-Box-Storming
    - 13.2 From top down to bottom up
    - 13.3 Getting things done by following your interests
    - 13.4 Finishing and review
    - 13.5 Becoming an expert by giving up planning
    - 13.6 The actual writing
  - 14 Make It a Habit
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Related
- https://twitter.com/coolXiao/status/1254328245048078338?s=20
- [[How to Take Smart Notes: A Step-by-Step Guide]]
- 《会记笔记就会写作》完全版-上 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eNpb7fOLk0ULamV-DYCZTQ (感觉就是中文翻译版本了)