Smart notes – QEC Notes – Atomic Notes

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.
How To Take Smart Notes (3 methods no one’s talking about)

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?

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