Finished How to Take Smart Notes

content/books.md

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 * Roberta Allen, Écrire une histoire en 5 minutes
 * Randall Munroe, What If?
 * Randall Munroe, How To
+* Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
 
 ## reading
 
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 * Thomas T. Barker, Writing Software Documentation
 * Sven Ove Hansson, Vincent F. Hendricks, Introduction to Formal Philosophy
-* Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
 
 ## to read
 
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 * Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things
 * John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design
 
-### recommended by m455
+### recommended by ~m455
 
 * Michelle Carey, Moira McFadden Lanyi, Deirdre Longo, Eric Radzinski, Shannon Rouiller, Elizabeth Wilde, Developing Quality Technical Information
 * Rude Eaton, Technical Editing
 * Ann Rockley, Charles Cooper, Managing Enterprise Content
+
+### recommended by ~acdw
+
+* Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

content/refs/ahrens2017.md

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+---
+title: How to Take Smart Notes, Sönke Ahrens, 2017
+---
+
+## Zettelkasten
+
+Made by Niklas Luhmann.
+
+1. Always have a way to take notes with you, then take notes of all your
+   thoughts, ideas, questions, etc. you have through the day.
+2. Process those notes no more than 48 hours to turn them into more permanent
+   notes on various topics or ideas, or to research them further.
+3. Try to find new relations between a new note and all the other existing
+   notes.
+
+### Reading
+
+1. Take notes of all the thoughts, ideas, questions while reading.
+2. Process the reading notes to make a note in a bibliography system with a
+   summary of key ideas of the book, rephrased in our own words.
+3. Process this summary to add new ideas to the permanent notes.
+4. Try to find new relations between new permanent notes and the other existing
+   notes.
+
+---
+
+* Ideas spark from creating relationships between two seemingly unrelated
+  concepts.
+* Human brains learn better with tightly-connected ideas.
+* Rephrasing an argument, explaining a concept, in our own words is critical to
+  understanding something.
+  * That is probably where "the teacher learns more than the student" comes from
+* The learning techniques used by most students, as well as most guides on
+  learning or on academic writing, just don't work.
+
+---
+
+While the author aims academic writing in particular, I felt this book relates
+to my own writings, especially for [brainshit](../brainshit.html).  I have a few
+articles that could benefit from more research, and I am pretty sure taking more
+notes would help me spark new blog post ideas.  I tend to often keep article
+ideas in my mind, so I usually either forget them or start feeling anxious
+because I can't just find something good to post and I want to post something.

content/refs/index.md

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+---
+title: References
+---
+
+This is a place where I will take notes on various things I read, so that I
+avoid forgetting about what I learned or the questions I had.