The best way to acquire knowledge from readings

Integrate these newly learned concepts with previously known concepts

We want to share an important learning mindset: You can only gain a deep understanding of the topics you care about through visual note-taking when you atomize your notes. 

Many people, when first using a visual note-taking app like Heptabase, continue to use the old way of note-taking and write one note for each book or lecture, resulting in very long notes that contain many concepts. When your notes are in this format, it’s hard to gain value from visualization.

For instance, in the figure below, there are two book cards, each with a lot of content. Although the content of these two books is related, connecting these two book cards on a whiteboard does not provide any new value, as it is almost the same as putting them in the same folder.

Read this article : https://medium.com/heptabase/the-best-way-to-acquire-knowledge-from-readings-abf9357814d1