A Balanced System for Note-taking and Reading

[@ReikiMasterCarlie]

Hi bro I want more videos from you. So inspirational and practical for us who runs business and also have tons of notes from learning and information that need to be organized.💖☺🙏🏻

[@samwisegrangee]

This is a great, balanced approach: grounded in the analog and leveraging the flexibility of the digital. When it comes to apps, I only use the default Notes app for quick capture things (and a few shared notes), but I love organizing and drafting ideas in Notion; I love being able to move things around with the folder structure, and the outline and table features are so powerful (as you masterfully showed). Even still I’m primarily an analog guy: marginalia, a pad of blank slips (for scribbable bookmarks and taking notes in books I don’t writing in), a notebook for jotting, writing, or drawing, a big notebook for daily journaling, and an everbook for drafting and shuffling things around (kinda what I do on notion). Finally, I’ve been trying to recite poetry, quotes, striking passages, and plots or arguments regularly from memory, which is neither analog nor digital, but spiritual. Reviewing and remembering is the hardest part and it’s often skipped, but that’s where the growth and insight really lives I find. Also, I’m Orthodox so I appeciate your icons. ☦️

[@broke.gucci.vibezz]

Loved this video! I recently started to decide on what system I want to use for my note-taking. Great insight as I wanted to do a balance of using Notion but continuing with handwritten notes. Might get a Kindle, too, as I find myself reading more virtually than actual books. Just started my masters program so this video definitely helped!

[@TheBeginnerPhotographyPodcast]

This was a great walkthrough of your process. I get very hung up on "Whats perfect" and "Whats good enough". You provided a lot of clarity here. Thank you.

[@KarlWalterTools]

I wish I would have seen this a few years ago! It's packed with many great tips and tricks! Thanks for sharing! Subsribed!

[@nikki_inthecity]

This was an amazing video. It has sparked new ideas on how I can use the best of both worlds. I absolutely love writing but the use of technology takes my reading and notetaking up a notch. I love reading virtually but there is nothing like filling up a notebook. Youve shown me a way that I can have both and organize it. Something it gets overwhelming and your method is very detailed and streamlined. Thank you for sharing.

[@thatskums]

Love this! I also came up with a similar digital indexing system! I bought a set of 6 notebooks and I've numbered each page, but for the second book, I numbered it from where I stopped in the first book. So Book one is page 1-150 and book 2 starts from page 151 and so on and so forth. I'm keeping my index on google sheets but I think I might try notion. Another idea that I got in order to merge analog and digital is to add QR codes in my notebooks. The QR codes can link to articles, videos, etc.

[@MrsThollo]

New subscriber here. Seems like a cool channel. Hope to see more videos!

[@MHajyounes]

Thank you great video! I use notion everyday and sometimes I use Avidnote

[@JohnDoe-xc5kn]

Notion is cool, but I found Obsidian can do all of those things and more. It’s just a bit more of a learning curve.

[@_adamsmith]

I’m very intrigued by Obsidian and I will have a play around with it. Maybe if I was studying again it’d be the tool for me.

[@elisacordeiro4497]

I'm not sure it's more of a learning curve, I just think it's a different kind of learning curve. I use both Notion and Obsidian but for different purposes - Notion for all things related to organization, tracking, task and project management - Obsidian for connected note-taking. You can use Notion for notes and Obsidian for databases, but I find that they are not very well suited for those things (for my specific use-case of course) Anyway - love both apps and the most important thing it's finding the right tool (analog or digital) for you 😄

[@elisacordeiro4497]

Hi Adam! I've just found your channel and I really like it ☺ I think for you current use-case you would benefit from obsidian regarding your notebook index and your topic notes. Obsidian it's not that great for cataloging multiple properties - you can use meta-data and dataview but it's not as intuitive as notion because the cataloging it's more code based. However Obsidian it's great for tagging and connecting notes, concepts, ideas and topics. Obsidian was absolutely crucial for my research project throughout my bachelor's degree - I was able to connect key concepts with my literature (books and articles) and also with my 'brainstorm' and permanent notes. All that with graph views that can be filtered and customized so as a visual learner that was pretty awesome haha😄

[@MartinDoyle]

Genuinely useful video. I love my paper notebooks but am struggling to find good ways of indexing them. Thank you.