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• Note-taking and Note-making

• Three Roles for Robots

• How to Take More Effective Notes

• Mind-Tickling Tactics

• The Informed Life with Mark Bernstein

• The Informed Life with Alice Albrecht

• Three Use Cases for Notes

• Notes Are for More than Remembering

• The Informed Life with Rob Ashton

• Use Taxonomies to Organize Your Stuff

• How to Avoid Misplacing Things

• The Informed Life with Howard Rheingold

• 3 Strategies for Organizing Information

• The Informed Life with Lorenzo Bernaschina

• The Informed Life with Mike Rohde

• The Informed Life with Kat King

• Organizing for Future You

• The Informed Life with Sam Ladner

• Book Notes: “Figure It Out”

• One Idea, One Note

• The Informed Life with Veronica Erb

• Three Types of Notes

• Book Notes: “Genius”

• The Informed Life with Oliver Caviglioli

• Book Notes: “How to Take Smart Notes”

• Reclaiming Our Attention with Focus Modes

• Why Do You Take Notes?

• How to Pick a Note-taking App

• Book Notes: “The Organized Mind” (Revisited)

• The Informed Life with Madonnalisa Chan

• Room to Think

• The Informed Life with Boon Yew Chew

• The Role of Thinking Spaces in Workshops

• Two Ways of Organizing Notes

• The Most Logical Date Format for Notes

• The Informed Life with Annie Murphy Paul

• Automating File/Folder Structures

• Why Metadata Matters

• The Informed Life with Patrick Tanguay

• Develop Mastery by Revisiting the Basics

• Never Forget a Good Idea Again

• Book Notes: “Tools for Thought”

• Sketches as an Extension of Your Mind

• Book Notes: “The Extended Mind”

• How to Use Transclusion in Obsidian

• Managing Tags When Integrating Obsidian and DEVONthink

• How to Find Older Files in Figma (and Other SaaS Apps)

• Two Things to Keep in Mind When Evaluating Note-taking Apps

• How New Note-taking Apps Give You Information Management Superpowers

• Working on the iPad

• Deciding Between Cloud-based & Local Apps

• How I Take Notes

• How I Manage 'Thinking' Time

• My Personal Information Ecosystem

• Ways of Thinking

• Book Notes: “Designerly Ways of Knowing”

• Seeing What’s Actually There

• The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

• Book Notes: “Rapid Problem Solving With Post-it® Notes”

• Think Better, Fast

• Book Notes: “The Organized Mind”

• The Instrument

• The Smart Sketchbook Revisited

• The Smart Sketchbook