"Taking SmartNotes" by Sönke Ahrens introduces a note-taking approach that involves creating concise permanent notes in your own words. It emphasizes making connections between notes, using a structured filing system, and actively engaging with your material. The method encourages breaking down complex topics, avoiding copy-pasting, and fostering an iterative learning process. This approach aims to enhance comprehension, promote deep thinking, and build a personal knowledge repository.
Distributed Cognition is the art of being able to control your focus by having a solid external trigger for it. Because what we have discovered is the way the brain works relies heavily on the current situation and the environment and it does that brilliantly. if you appropriately manage these practices what happens is you have an external memory trigger that gives you all the possible actions you have in the moment that then you can use your intelligence and intuition to make choices of it.