Connect Your Notes For Smarter Learning

Organize your note-taking and take charge of your memory.

Josh Spilker
Create Make Write
Published in
3 min readSep 18, 2024

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Photo by Daniel J. Schwarz on Unsplash

You’ve settled into a note-taking routine, and you’re picking up lots of new info and insights.

Now, your brain is going into overdrive. It’s processing all of that information.

Our brains are wired to make connections — between thoughts, experiences, and memories. That’s how we remember. And when your notes start mimicking that same process, everything changes.

The problem with how we take notes…

Most of us are note-taking maximalists. We write everything down, thinking more equals better. But then those notes sit around, unused and forgotten. No connections, no context — just isolated facts floating in a sea of information.

The truth is, without connections, your notes are just noise. No matter how good your system is, if you’re not linking ideas together, it’s just another to-do list of random thoughts.

Connecting your notes changes…

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