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Here are my notes from @fortelabs' session at @teachable's #SWYK20
The session was titled Digital Note-Taking for Course Creators.
My notes
The session was titled Digital Note-Taking for Course Creators.
My notes
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Effective tricks for using your digital notes app as a jumping-off point for your most powerful creative work.
Effective tricks for using your digital notes app as a jumping-off point for your most powerful creative work.
Key Takeaways:
You can use the Internet, apps, and tools, not to distract you, but to enhance your creativity and increase the ease with which you create, your quality of life, and operate from a framework of abundance.
You can use the Internet, apps, and tools, not to distract you, but to enhance your creativity and increase the ease with which you create, your quality of life, and operate from a framework of abundance.
Course are like icebergs. There’s the part that peaks up above the surface. This is the content everyone thinks about - the obvious stuff.
That’s just the very tip of the iceberg. Underneath it is all of this other content you’ll have to create.
That’s just the very tip of the iceberg. Underneath it is all of this other content you’ll have to create.
This is stuff to sell the course. There ends up being more content to sell the course then content you needed to make the course.
You cannot afford to stop iterating and improving.
But even all of that isn’t it.
There’s still more content you’ll need to create.
You cannot afford to stop iterating and improving.
But even all of that isn’t it.
There’s still more content you’ll need to create.
There is all of the content you’ll need just to have a presence online. This has to be produced more or less continually.
What is the system you will use to create all of this content?
Centralize all of your creation.
Centralize all of your creation.
Create one system that you put all of the best knowledge you consume. Put all of this into your second brain, your centralized hub for knowledge management. Your life and everything you are already learning becomes the creative fuel for your work.
These ideas become the building blocks for your creativity. Your inputs feed your output. This is what we’re doing with the knowledge we consumes. They become knowledge building blocks.
Practical Tips for Building a Second Brain to Boost your Content Creation Efforts:
The steps any piece of information has to go through from consumption to creation
C-O-D-E
Capture - Organize - Distill - Express
The steps any piece of information has to go through from consumption to creation
C-O-D-E
Capture - Organize - Distill - Express
CAPTURE - Download a digital notes app and save your best ideas
Download a notes app that is:
* Centralized and synced across devices
* Quick & dirty
* Personal & private
* Designed for quick capture
Download a notes app that is:
* Centralized and synced across devices
* Quick & dirty
* Personal & private
* Designed for quick capture
Some of the most popular note-taking apps:
Bear - https://bear.app/
Notion - https://www.notion.so/
Evernote - https://evernote.com/
Roam - https://roamresearch.com/
OneNote - https://www.onenote.com/
Bear - https://bear.app/
Notion - https://www.notion.so/
Evernote - https://evernote.com/
Roam - https://roamresearch.com/
OneNote - https://www.onenote.com/
ORGANIZE - Organize your notes using the PARA System
Tiago uses a system of organization called P.A.R.A
Projects
Areas
Resources
Archives
Use a small set of broad buckets
Relevant post from Tiago’s blog: https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/
Tiago uses a system of organization called P.A.R.A
Projects
Areas
Resources
Archives
Use a small set of broad buckets
Relevant post from Tiago’s blog: https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/
Do not organize according to topics, organized according to how actionable things are
DISTILL - Highlight the best parts so they stand out
Relevant Post from Tiago’s Blog: http://fortelabs.co/blog/ps
Also relevant - my summary of Tiago's post on how to create effective book summaries here: https://twitter.com/KyleBowe4/status/1292967238811766786?s=20
Relevant Post from Tiago’s Blog: http://fortelabs.co/blog/ps
Also relevant - my summary of Tiago's post on how to create effective book summaries here: https://twitter.com/KyleBowe4/status/1292967238811766786?s=20
EXPRESS - Put the pieces together and share your knowledge
We’re not organizing for the sake of hoarding. The final - and most important part - is to use all of these tools to actually put your knowledge out there. To apply it.
We’re not organizing for the sake of hoarding. The final - and most important part - is to use all of these tools to actually put your knowledge out there. To apply it.
Your life - your daily experience - is the richest source of ideas and inspiration that you have access to.
Heavy lifts vs. slow burns
There are fewer and fewer big blocks of time available these days. It can be hard to justify the chunks of time it takes to do this.
Instead, you can let ideas simmer. With a digital notes app, you can collect ideas over time.
There are fewer and fewer big blocks of time available these days. It can be hard to justify the chunks of time it takes to do this.
Instead, you can let ideas simmer. With a digital notes app, you can collect ideas over time.
Slow burns are powerful because you can slowly collect information, collect ideas, and develop them over time.
Writer’s block just means I don’t have the ammo. - Sebastian Junger
Examples of ammo:
* Illustrations
* Screenshots
* Evidence
* Mindmaps
* Diagrams
* Book notes
* Quotes
* Illustrations
* Screenshots
* Evidence
* Mindmaps
* Diagrams
* Book notes
* Quotes
I look at books as investments in a future of learning rather than a fleeting moment of insight, soon to be forgotten. - @kevanlee
From: https://buffer.com/resources/how-to-read-more-and-remember-it-all/
From: https://buffer.com/resources/how-to-read-more-and-remember-it-all/
Imagine if everything you consume, if you knew that investment of attention, was going to pay off in the long run. Put that information in a centralized place that you can draw from in the future.
Tiago’s Website: http://buildingasecondbrain.com
Tiago’s Website: http://buildingasecondbrain.com
Link to this note in Evernote (includes screenshots and images): https://www.evernote.com/l/AUol0oOyWF1Hxp-oVlN9Xlefh9WG-OH4LRE
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