How to Take Smart Notes Thesis

The philosophical thesis of ”How to Take Smart Notes”

Give each task your full attention - Know Your Immediate Task & Mental Time Blocking
Don’t multitask — Never Multitask
Give each task the right kind of attention — bringing a knife to a gunfight & Treat Work Sessions like the Cinema
Become an expert instead of a planner — Learn by Doing & Bias Toward Action
Get closure - free your short term memory by getting closure on tasks — Think, Don’t Remember & Open Loops
1. Use GTD and an inbox
2. Break tasks down into actions that can be accomplished without dangling threads. You do the thing. It’s done. You move on.
  1. Not “call bank”, but “call bank at 555-555-5555, ask about fees and make notes on options”
Reduce the Number of Decisions — Decision Fatigue & Make the Decision that Informs all Subsequent Decisions
1. Use standard processes and systematize the administrative stuff in a simple, intuitive way, so that you don’t have to think about “Where” or “How” To capture a task or not, but instead you can focus on the thing itself. — Standard Processes

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