Smart notes – QEC Notes – Atomic Notes
- 💡 The illusion of competence: underlining, highlighting, and taking notes can give us the illusion that we are learning something new while our brain is just relaxing like a potato.
- 📝 Smart notes: actively restructuring other people’s thoughts into your own structure. Smart notes are active, atomic, and linked.
- 📝 Q/E/C Note-Taking method: Question, Evidence, and Conclusion. This method helps in actively restructuring other people’s thoughts into your own structure, making the note-taking process active.
- 📝 Atomic Notes: it is important to make each question, evidence, and conclusion a separate, atomic note to think in 3D, not chronologically.
- 💭 Outsmarting others: creating atomic notes that are linked to each other allows one to think more clearly and precisely.
There’s more here: When trying to connect an idea, think in these terms:
- North – Where does this idea come from?
- West – What’s similar to this idea?
- East – What’s opposite of this idea?
- South – Where does this idea lead to next?
