In this episode, we talk about the joy of reading, note taking, Roam Research vs. Notion, and applying note taking techniques to writing and idea creation.

Links

Episode 55 – Bible Notetaking Systems with Matthew EverhardRelearning the Joy of Reading (Blog)How to Take Smart Notes by **Sönke AhrensTrack book series for students – Track is a series of books designed to disciple the next generation in the areas of culture, doctrine, & the Christian life. While the topics addressed aren’t always simple, they are communicated in a manner that is.

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Time Stamps

01:42 Relearning the Joy of Reading02:17 How to Take Smart Notes04:39 Trying Roam Research (Again)06:53 Roam Research vs. Notion09:44 Applying Smart Note to My Book Project14:17 Smart Notes for Idea Creation

Transcript

Hello, and welcome to the redeeming productivity show. This is the podcast that helps Christians get more done, and get it done like Christians. And I’m your host, Reagan Rose.

Well, I am on vacation this week in Florida with my family. So if you hear some background noise, that’s probably my son screaming, or my wife cooking dinner right now, we’re having fish tacos.

So this episode, I’m going to do kind of a little bit more of what my friend Daryl Harrison calls a freestyle episode. And basically, I’m just going to be talking about a few things that I’ve been thinking about learning and reading about that have application to personal productivity. And it’s not super structured, it’s not super outlined. But hopefully, it’ll be super fun. I just didn’t want to go two weeks without giving you guys an episode. So here we are, we’re gonna be talking about

I guess we’ll be talking really about note taking, which I know I’ve talked about a lot with my interview with Matthew everhard. And some of the other episodes. In recent history, we’re talking about the Citadel, Kazakhstan, you know, and and knowledge management systems. But it’s something I just keep digging deeper and deeper into. And the more I think about it, the more I think that if if we could kind of come up with a better way to organize our thinking, organize our notes. And as we’re reading and stuff, and I think it’s a worthy endeavor, to try to find a good better way of taking notes. In fact, if you haven’t seen the blog post I posted last week on relearning the joy of reading, you should check that out I in that I talk a little bit about how one of the things that’s helped me regained kind of a love for reading, in recent days, has been

trying to get better at taking notes and retaining what I’m reading in a way that doesn’t get in the way of the reading process, but actually, helps make it a bit more fun, actually. And so, as I’ve been thinking about that, and trying to get better at that, I bought a book that I’d been hearing a lot about, called How to take smart notes, by some K, Aaron’s and this is a great, great read, if you have any interest at all in research and writing or any of that kind of stuff. This is a book that is worth your time checking out. It’s called How to take smart notes. And I have been

implementing already. And in fact, kind of ironically, a little Inception wise, I’ve been implementing some of the ways of taking notes that the book talks about, as I’m reading the book. So in the notes on the book, but basically, what how to take smart notes is about is it’s about writing and thinking and the fact that those processes can be improved through a more organized note taking system. And they kind of flip the the traditional idea of how you would go about writing something on its head. So instead of what we’re kind o