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Duly Noted

Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes

By Jorge Arango

To be published: January 2024
Paperback: 216 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9781959029045
Ebook ISBN: 9781959029175

Better thinking makes you a better person. And few things extend your mind as quickly and powerfully as the humble note. Notes let you fulfill commitments, manage complicated projects, and make your ideas real. Digital notes take you even further. By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden” where your thinking will blossom.

Who Should Read This Book?

Anyone and everyone who wants to get control of their notes to generate better ideas, learning, and actions. Duly Noted is superb for students, academics, business people, technicians, writers, UX people, managers, leaders—virtually anyone who can benefit from taking and managing notes.

Takeaways

  • Learn best-practice note-taking principles so you can take more concise notes.
  • Connect your notes to one another to create a personal network of ideas (your own personal “knowledge garden”).
  • Capture ideas before you lose them.
  • Organize your notes so that you can find and make sense of them later.
  • Learn how connected notes can spark insight and lead to new ideas and learning.
  • Explore how notes can help you collaborate with other minds, including artificial ones.
  • Learn how to use Obsidian, a powerful digital note-taking tool.
  • Follow the how-to exercises to lead you through the note-taking maze.

Better thinking makes you a better person. And few things extend your mind as quickly and powerfully as the humble note. Notes let you fulfill commitments, manage complicated projects, and make your ideas real. Digital notes take you even further. By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden” where your thinking will blossom.

Who Should Read This Book?

Anyone and everyone who wants to get control of their notes to generate better ideas, learning, and actions. Duly Noted is superb for students, academics, business people, technicians, writers, UX people, managers, leaders—virtually anyone who can benefit from taking and managing notes.

Takeaways

  • Learn best-practice note-taking principles so you can take more concise notes.
  • Connect your notes to one another to create a personal network of ideas (your own personal “knowledge garden”).
  • Capture ideas before you lose them.
  • Organize your notes so that you can find and make sense of them later.
  • Learn how connected notes can spark insight and lead to new ideas and learning.
  • Explore how notes can help you collaborate with other minds, including artificial ones.
  • Learn how to use Obsidian, a powerful digital note-taking tool.
  • Follow the how-to exercises to lead you through the note-taking maze.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Howard Rheingold
Chapter 1:
 Notes Are for Thinking
Chapter 2: Make Short Notes
Chapter 3: Connect Your Notes
Chapter 4: Plan for a Knowledge Garden
Chapter 5: Don’t Let Ideas Get Away
Chapter 6: Put Everything in Its Right Place
Chapter 7: Spark Insights
Chapter 8: Share Your Thinking
Chapter 9: Tend the Garden
Chapter 10: Think with Other Minds