Warning. Not for the faint of heart.

The simple fact is that there is no job or career in which keeping track of your learning isn’t useful.

Ted Gioia

We tend to think of note taking as short hand, or jotting down quick partial sentences. Lamp post notes that will shine a glimmer on a distant a idea when we revisit them. (If we revisit them).

Some examples of lamp post notes are:

Cornell notes.

Bullet journaling.

But Gioia’s note taking method advocates for writing notes in complete sentences and connecting paragraphs. A more demanding, but more rewarding form of note-taking.

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The greatest reward from reading is in the ways it improves and broadens you the reader.

Ted Gioia

Gioia, Ted. How I Take Notes. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-i-take-notes, August 7, 2023