Writing the Future
An interesting way to think about note taking: the CODE concept from Tiago Forte. CODE stands for capture, organize, distill and express. Capture refers to saving the ideas and insights worth saving. That is, not the whole book you’re reading, but the really important themes and concepts that resonate with your work. Organize is self-explanatory, …
PARA is another concept from Tiago Forte’s Build a Second Brain that I like. It stands for the four main categories of information in our lives: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It’s a way to organize your notes and in my case, various to do lists. See also CODE. Roughly speaking: Projects are the short-term …
Tiago Forte, writing in Building a Second Brain, has a nifty name for individual pieces of your work: intermediate packets. The idea here has two parts. One is that you can break down a large project into smaller, more manageable chunks. Writing a 50,000 word book might sound daunting. Writing 50 pieces of 1000 words …