I like reading books, but I am too lazy to take notes;

When you find the golden sentence in the book, you will mark it with a line;

When you encounter touching ideas or inspirations, write them down in your notebook.

When you need to write with it, you forget where you marked it or which notebook you wrote it in. At this time, I suddenly felt that all the books I read were "read for nothing" and all the notes I recorded were "written for nothing".

I recently read a book "How to Realize the Writing Method from Reading to Writing-Card Notes". All the above questions have been answered and a set of simple and practical solutions have been provided.

Luhmann, a German sociology professor known as "contemporary Hegel", invented the cassette note-taking method. In this way, he accumulated 90,000 knowledge cards and published 58 books and hundreds of papers.

The author of this book, Schenk arens, was inspired by Lumanka's box-taking method, and established a set of processes and methods for reading, taking notes and writing. Build your own external brain with notebook system and reshape the relationship between learning input and output. Let everyone have an inexhaustible library of materials, easily realize cognitive compound interest from reading to writing, and gain lifelong growth.

Next, let's start with learning input.

Taking notes while reading can not only deepen understanding, but also help writing.

As the saying goes, a clever woman can't cook without rice. If writing is "cooking", then the first thing we should do is to store "rice", that is, the thoughts and materials of writing, which mainly come from the accumulation of our usual reading.

1. Notes can help us understand and remember what we read at home.

Reading is easy, but what is the purpose of our reading? It is to acquire knowledge, skills or unpredictable opinions and ideas.

But our brains are not computers, so it's easy to forget. Therefore, "a good memory is better than a bad pen", and taking notes is the only way for us to reserve "rice".

If we don't take notes while reading, our thoughts or inspiration will often be fleeting. However, we are often very confident. We have a clear memory of that time, and sometimes we are too lazy to write about it, but we can't stand the erosion of time. Benjamin Franklin said:

"I suggest that you take a pen in your hand while reading and write down short hints that you think are common or may be useful in a small notebook, because this will be the best way to imprint this trace on your memory."

Just like now, if you recall the first novel you read, what is the most memorable quote in the book? Or a book you have read and like very much, what is the most touching sentence for you? Presumably most of us don't remember.

When reading, we can write down good sentences and new ideas in our own language, which can show that we really understand them, and it can consolidate our thoughts.

Notes are important materials for our writing.

Most people who like reading like taking notes. These notes contain new knowledge, new thinking and even new inspiration that we have absorbed. Notes are a material library accumulated over time, which is worth writing every day.

If you want to learn something for a long time, you must write it down. If you want to really understand something, you must translate it into your own language.

Just like Luhmann, the inventor of the card note method, in fact, a writer can have a strong lifelong knowledge base as long as he writes six card notes every day.

When writing, it is very brain-burning to rely solely on memory, which forces us to remember something that has been recorded. At this point, notes have become important materials for our writing.

The input of learning is for output, and writing is the only important thing.

Writing is the ability that everyone needs in the new era.

Writing is not just for writers or writers. Planning, summarizing, applying and reporting in our daily work are all writing. Especially in the modern new media era, everyone is an author, and writing has become our daily life.

1. Your knowledge or achievements are meaningful only if they are made public.

Throughout the ages, most of human cultural achievements and important ideas have been handed down through words. Modern society, whether it is cultural exchange or resume, also needs to be presented by writing.

Especially in academia, your original ideas, new discoveries and research results are almost nothing as long as you know them.

If you want to make your achievements public, you must write them down for people to read, so that it will be meaningful to spread them, otherwise your achievements will be meaningless.

Just like when we write an article, we think we have expressed our ideas clearly, but when people read it, it doesn't reflect your true intention. At this point, your intention is not important, but what you write is more important.

This means that the articles we write are our public opinions on the results. Therefore, the importance of writing is self-evident.

Writing can change the way we read.

When we begin to pay attention to writing consciously, our reading style will also change.

When reading, we will habitually hold a pen at hand. But it is impossible to write all the ideas. Only what we need or inspire us will prompt us to read carefully and intently.

In this way, it is easier for us to remember important contents and take notes in our own language. Avoid the embarrassment of fuzzy reading and instant memory.

Reading for the purpose of writing enables us to accumulate "rice" so that we can "cook" at any time.

But in reality, faced with piles of notes over the years, it is impossible for us to rummage through them one by one when writing, which makes it difficult to apply them to our daily writing. However, Luhmann's card fetching method overcomes this major problem faced by all readers and writers.

Card-box note-taking method makes writing natural and continuous.

Card notes, as the name implies, are written on cards. But there is a fundamental difference between it and the traditional note-taking system, that is, there is an extra box, which is the card note box.

1. Lumanka notebook box is no longer the filing of notes, but the fermentation field of ideas.

Our usual notes will be put away after writing and rarely used again. Just like a published document, it will be archived and saved. And the essence and inspiration of our original records have disappeared in the notebook, so it is difficult to be used again.

The reason is that we don't have a set of management system from taking notes, sorting, numbering and storing them in the card box to establishing the connection and extraction between notes.

Lumanka notes are divided into flash notes, literature notes and permanent notes.

1) newsletter

It is mainly the inspiration and ideas that flash through my mind, which only serve as reminders, equivalent to memos. Generally, it will be sorted into permanent notes within 2 days and then thrown into the trash can.

2) Literature Notes

Is to write down what you want to remember, and simply record it in your own language, rather than simply copying it. Then the notes and the details of the bibliography are saved in the file management system.

3) Permanent comments

It means that a complete sentence contains the necessary information and will never be thrown away. Every note has been carefully thought out to provide inspiration for subsequent creation. They are always stored in the same place in the same way, with unified standards and formats.

We'd better open the card box every day to look at the permanent notes and think about how they relate to our current affairs. In cards knowledge management system, the topics, problems and research topics are developed from bottom to top.

After a period of time, when enough ideas are accumulated and a writing theme is determined, based on the card materials we have, these related notes will become our first draft. In this way, a theme and an article are fermented in the card box.

2. The Luhmann card notebook box that everyone can use is simple to operate.

It is precisely because the writing of the card voucher is simple and easy to operate that some people disdain to use it. Just like grinding a pestle into a needle, it takes deliberate practice and persistence to achieve fruitful results.

We only need to number our notes with letters, numbers or keywords. For example, the number of the first note is the letter A, so when your second note has nothing to do with the first note, its number is B; If it is related to a, the number is A- 1. If the next trisection is related to A but not to A- 1, it is numbered as A-2; If it is related to or supplemented with Note A- 1, the number is A- 1- 1 ...

The numbered banknotes in the card box need to be indexed so that we can find them quickly at any time. Record the key words on the index card and add the number of one or two note cards next to it.

Index keywords should be written according to the author's ideas. There are four types of indexes:

The first category is subject index;

The second category is similar to subject index, but it is the summary of a subject;

The third category is to index the current card and logically indicate what the previous card is and what the next card is;

The fourth category is the most commonly used index form, which is simple notes-notes.

Then, we continue to accumulate over time. When there are enough notes, there will naturally be a lot of materials and materials to support some topics.

At this point, we only need to focus on the internal relations of these notes, and then select and sort out the materials, and we can form a complete article. This card note system opens a sunshine avenue from reading to writing, which is simple and efficient.

The book "The Writing Method of Card Notes" not only shows us a knowledge system that grows outside the brain, but also helps us learn how to establish a correct reading and writing workflow, turn the previous pressure into a booster for growth, and combine learning with fun to input and output and benefit for life. As Luhmann said:

"I don't think about everything myself, they mainly happen in the card box."

I hope if you happen to see this article, you can read something. Re-understanding reading, taking notes and writing is like a duck to water in this age of lifelong growth.