How to Take a Digital Note

Tiago Forte’s webinar on the mechanics of a digital note — what to capture, and in what form it stays useful later.

Notes

• Notes
  • When to take a note:
    • Inspiring
    • Useful
    • Easily Lost
    • Personal
  • Types of notes
    • Pay attention to the kinds of notes you’re creating most frequently and build some systematic approach (e.g. Nat Eliason’s approach to Metadata)
  • Information Exhaustion
    • Information has a direct biological affect on the physiological factors of your body
    • If you don’t learn to manage the information flow in your life, you will increasingly feel exhausted and overwhelmed
    • We spend 11.8 hours consuming media every day (113K words)
    • Increasing 2.6% per year