Supercharge Your Notion Notes

How to rapidly & effectively take notes

The Notepanel

This system is shown below.

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Projects

Below is the Projects section of the Notespanel.

You might be confused why I included a linked database view of my projects in the Notespanel. Well, basically I also have a filtered link view of my notes for each project.

This means that if I click inside the project Berkeley Classes, for example, my Economics notes from last night will be right there. Moreover, I also use these projects to directly enter notes within them, so I don’t have to wait for Notion’s snail-speed relational tagging system; this is detailed in my second post.

Notes

Below is the section of the Notespanel dealing with my inbox and control.

Control is just a linked database view of all notes that have been tagged with properties. Inbox is a toggle, which, when toggled on, shows a linked database view of notes that have incomplete tagging.

What this means is that you can write random notes when you are learning something important at the moment, and not worry about organizing it immediately. It will go to the inbox, and you can just come back later to the Notespanel to set all its properties. This is great for incomplete and junk notes, which you just write on a whim, so that they don’t invade your formal notes library.

Now for notes in control, these are your established learnings, which have been completed and formally tagged. This gradually becomes your lifelong library of learning and does not let any junk notes inside.

Moreover, when I’m taking notes in general, I always try to only highlight the top learnings, which will be extremely important for me looking into the future. This ensures that my notes solidify my learning but don’t hamper my speed.

Conclusion

I usually have a bunch of random books and articles open at a time, and I’ve traditionally preferred just skimming through them when their info is applicable, which I kinda picked up from Naval. Frankly, it has really helped me really excel in short-term projects and situations.

However, I’ve found notes with just your top learnings to be fast but still ensure solid learning. I’ve created a simple note system that organizes my notes quickly, while still allowing me to engage in that freeflow learning stream I love.

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