Information overload has never been as bad as it is today. There are countless benefits to putting your experiences and thoughts on paper.įorgot an author or a book title? No wonder. It doesn't matter if you're taking notes on paper, a card, a tissue, or an app. The Abraham Lincoln quote you remember snippets of and wanted to build a speech around? You don't know where or when you read it.What about the new marketing software you heard about at the conference this weekend? You don't remember the name.Remember that 2016 movie where a blonde actress plays a ballet dancer? Me neither, and it would fit right in with your latest movie review.We are paid for knowledge (or the application of knowledge), yet we forget almost everything. If you are reading these lines, you are most likely a knowledge worker, paid for expertise rather than manual labor. Automation is taking over, with software and robots already doing most of the low value-added work. The result is irrelevant: apart from flipping through dusty notebooks when you move, you never see your notes again.īut smart note-taking has countless benefits that not only work to your advantage but are almost indispensable in today's skilled and knowledge-intensive jobs. You take exams on the material, and on rare occasions, you simply find the lectures interesting. You sit and diligently scribble what you've learned in a spiral notebook. I will do no less than convince them of the benefits of note-taking and, through various methods, arrive at the end of this article at the pinnacle of 21st-century knowledge management: digital notes.Įveryone is familiar with traditional note-taking.

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