Make Useful Notes. Connect Your Notes.

A framework for taking smart notes. From Make Useful Notes.

Write exactly one note for each idea and
write as if you were writing for someone else.

— Niklas Luhman [19]

What is the difference between a sketchnote and a smart sketchnote? It is the same as between ideas and networked ideas. Such easy.

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Smart Sketchnotes are Networked Visuals [20]:

• Visual Thinking creates Sketchnotes.
• Networked Thinking creates Connected Notes.

It is like connecting Mike Rohde and Niklas Luhmann. The only tools you need are Concepts app and Obsidian with Luhmann’s Zettelkasten.

Try it your own: Start reading the next chapter.

[19] Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes. p. 34
[20] Edmund Gröpl, ‘Smart Sketchnotes Are Networked Visuals’, 2022,
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/groepl_zettelkasten-procreate-procreatesketchnote-activity-6909149379492769794-018A/

Thanks very much! I really appreciate you reading my work. If you enjoyed it and found it useful, you might also like the related book “TAKE USEFUL NOTES. A simple guide to a complex skill by using Sketchnotes, Obsidian and Zettelkasten”.