Smart notes

Category: note type

Summary: Notes designed to support thinking, linking, and writing rather than passive storage.

What it means

Smart notes are written so they can participate in future thought. They usually state one idea clearly, use the writer’s own words, and connect to related notes.

How it shows up in personal knowledge management

They connect to snke-ahrens, permanent-notes, atomic-notes, linked-notes, and writing-process.

Common mistakes

• Saving highlights and assuming they are smart notes.
• Writing notes that cannot be understood outside the original source.

Related pages

• snke-ahrens
• permanent-notes
• atomic-notes
• linked-notes
• writing-process

Mentioned in

• — from Sönke Ahrens