# Jorge Arango on Extending Your Mind Through Better Note Taking

## Metadata
- Author: [[Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work & Life]]
- Full Title: Jorge Arango on Extending Your Mind Through Better Note Taking
- Category: #podcasts
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/450d9e95-8e1c-41d0-ae48-19afbf1ac06f
## Highlights
- Episode AI notes
1. Note-taking is a dynamic process that involves organizing thoughts, utilizing various tools, capturing insights, linking notes, revisiting them, and connecting ideas from different sources for long-term learning, creativity, organization, and productivity.
2. Recommended links for further exploration include dolynoted.fiii for the book, Rose and Phil Media for DRM-free versions, the informed life podcast, and jarrango.com for more valuable insights and resources.
3. Listeners are encouraged to actively engage in note-taking, review, and rewind if needed to enhance understanding and maximize the benefits of the information shared. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/episode-takeaways/0387ced3-81af-4ecf-ab01-78abdd368021))
- Effective Note-Taking for Long-Term Learning
Summary:
The key insight is that note-taking is not merely about recording information but involves a dynamic process that includes moving thoughts out of our heads, understanding different types of notes, utilizing various tools like digital and analog, capturing insights for future reference, linking notes together, revisiting them, and creating long-term learning by connecting ideas from different sources.
This approach to note-taking enhances creativity, organization, and productivity.
Transcript:
Speaker 2
I'm Eric Fisher, your host, as we discuss the true goal of productivity, living a more meaningful life. This week, I am joined by Jorge Arango, the host of the Informed Life podcast, and also the author of duly noted, extend your mind through connected notes. And as an information architect, we are diving into his book to explore how our environment, the tools we use, and the interactions that we have play an important role in our thinking Process when it comes to note-taking and what we do with those notes. We're going to talk about moving our thoughts out of our head and into the world so that we can do something with them, understand different types of notes, and how knowing how different Tools, digital versus analog, can make a difference as well, and improve our capturing to revisit our insights, and forging new ones that note-taking isn't just about taking down Information. It's about having a dynamic process that involves linking notes together, revisiting notes, and creating long-term learning with the connection of all those ideas, ours and others That we've come across. I know that this is going to be helpful for you creatively, organizationally, and productively. So enjoy this conversation with Jorge Arango. ([Time 0:00:50](https://share.snipd.com/snip/fd1b3ae8-87c7-464d-9038-2eefb98568ec))
- Maximizing Benefits Through Recommended Links
Summary:
The speaker provides three valuable links: a website for the book dolynoted.fiii, suggesting purchasing from the publisher Rose and Phil Media for DRM-free versions; a podcast named the informed life available on main directories and its website theinformed.life; and the personal website jarrango.com.
Encourages listeners to take notes, review, and rewind if needed for better understanding and benefit.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
Well, fantastic. Thank you for that prompt. I'll give you three links. So the book, you can find at dolynoted.fiii. So that's the website for the book. And you can see where to buy it. I highly recommend that you buy it from the publisher, Rose and Phil Media. It's a small company run by fabulous people. If you buy it there and you're an ebook reader as I am, you get the added benefit of getting DRM free versions of the book in different formats. Great. So check it out. The podcast is called the informed life. And you can find that in the main podcast directories, apples, spotifies, etc. The website is the informed dot life. And then to keep up with my stuff, my personal website is jarrango.com. So my first initial last name.com.
Speaker 2
Perfect. Jorge, it's been great talking with you. And again, I hope that people were able to follow along, kind of parse it out for themselves. If not, rewind, go back, review, like a note and go over those notes. Yeah, but this is highly beneficial. And I think a lot of people are going to benefit from this. Thank you so much for sharing.
Speaker 1
Thank you, Eric. And I would suspect that anyone who was taking notes as they were listening might have had an easier time of going back to it.
Speaker 2
I totally agree.
Speaker 1
Thank you so much. ([Time 0:48:02](https://share.snipd.com/snip/5ef8d730-6a26-4367-b418-f5d2f3878c4a))