Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes

by Jorge Arango, Howard Rheingold (Foreword by)

Overview

Better thinking makes you a better person. And few things extend your mind as quickly and powerfully as the humble note. Notes let you fulfill commitments, manage complicated projects, and make your ideas real. Digital notes take you even further. By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden" where your thinking will blossom.

"An informative guide to organizing and managing thoughts, with a digital focus."—Kirkus Reviews

Who Should Read This Book?

Anyone and everyone who wants to get control of their notes to generate better ideas, learning, and actions. Duly Noted is superb for students, academics, business people, technicians, writers, UX people, managers, leaders—virtually anyone who can benefit from taking and managing notes.

Takeaways

• Learn best-practice note-taking principles so you can take more concise notes.
• Connect your notes to one another to create a personal network of ideas (your own personal “knowledge garden”).
• Capture ideas before you lose them.
• Organize your notes so that you can find and make sense of them later.
• Learn how connected notes can spark insight and lead to new ideas and learning.
• Explore how notes can help you collaborate with other minds, including artificial ones
• Learn how to use Obsidian, a powerful digital note-taking tool.
• Follow the how-to exercises to lead you through the note-taking maze.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781959029045
Publisher:	Rosenfeld Media
Publication date:	01/02/2024
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Jorge Arango is an information architect and strategic designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. In his consulting practice, Jorge partners with product, design, and innovation leaders to create digital places that make people smarter. He has designed information environments for all types of organizations, ranging from developing world non-profits to Fortune 500 corporations.

Jorge is a frequent speaker at global UX conferences. He is author of Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places (Two Waves Books, 2018) and co-author of Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond (O’Reilly Media, 2015). He has also served the global UX community as president and director of the Information Architecture Institute, and as thematic director of the first World IA Day. Besides his consulting practice, Jorge is also an adjunct professor in the Interaction Design program at the California College of the Arts (CCA).

Editorial Reviews

You make notes all the time. You could make them in a better way—a way that can supercharge your thinking. This book shows you how.”
—Karl Fast, Ph.D., co-author of Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding

“Duly Noted is the definitive book on taking digital notes and creating a modern, methodology-light system for thinking deeply.”
—Nicole van der Hoeven, YouTuber and Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

“A clear, useful and informative guide to turning your untamed thoughts—the wilderness of your mind—into a beautiful, organized, well-maintained garden.”
—Dave Gray, author of Liminal Thinking, co-author of Gamestorming, founder of the School of the Possible

“The best introduction to information gardening!”
—Mark Bernstein, designer of Tinderbox

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