Sönke Ahrens on Smart Notes

The Informed Life

Sönke Ahrens is an independent researcher and coach. He is best known as the author of How to Take Smart Notes, a popular book on the zettelkasten method of note-taking. In this conversation, we discuss the role of notes in thinking and learning, with a focus on zettelkasten-inspired note-taking.
Show notes

• Sönke Ahrens
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
• Niklas Luhmann - Wikipedia
• Bielefeld University
• Zettelkasten - Wikipedia
• Luhmann’s digitized zettelkasten
• Personal wiki - Wikipedia
• The Informed Life episode 74: Annie Murphy Paul on The Extended Mind

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فصول

1. Sönke Ahrens on Smart Notes (00:00:00)

2. About Sönke (00:01:21)

3. Zettelkasten (00:02:15)

4. Categories and identifiers (00:10:32)

5. Connecting concepts, not just words (00:14:17)

6. The value of friction (00:18:11)

7. Collecting, connecting, and contextualizing (00:23:13)

8. Note-taking as thinking (00:26:43)

9. Who is note-taking for? (00:30:14)

10. Embrace the process (00:38:27)

11. Closing (00:43:42)