It could be a piece of content, like a blog post or a project deliverable at work or the schedule for your kids this summer. Once you’ve combined a few of your written-down thoughts and ideas, you can create something. This helps with creativity and formulating better, more-original ideas. These connections start to appear and emerge from your notes. For example, you start realizing an article you were reading about gardening has a connection to cultivating your audience. Once you’ve written down a number of things, people often begin finding unexpected and spontaneous connections between ideas. Everything from what your boss said in your most recent one-on-one to the details of a remodel you’re working on: Those small but important details should be the first things that you transfer into your notes. There’s no reason to memorize and keep track of all the details and facts you find important. Note-taking is ultimately designed to enable your self-expression. The purpose is to express something-your voice, your story, your message, your expertise. The point of taking notes is not just to physically record information. The final and most important step is Express. Once you’ve done that, the information is easier to work with and to draw inferences from at a glance. Pick out and highlight the key points, takeaways, conclusions, or anything that you find interesting. It’s more feasible and practical.Īfter organizing the content, then you are ready to Distill. Instead of coordinating according to categories, organize your information according to your active projects.
Information should be organized according to actionability.
What do you do with that captured content? It goes to the second stage, which is Organize.
It can’t be something you are trying to memorize. The first step is Capture: You have to save and record the information outside your head. This is the creative process of taking your notes and using them to produce new work or new results or to make decisions. The methodology I developed is called CODE.
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