**The philosophical thesis of _"[[How to Take Smart Notes]]"_** 1. Give each task your full attention - [[Know Your Immediate Task]] & [[Mental Time Blocking]] 2. Don't multitask — [[Never Multitask]] 3. Give each task the right kind of attention — bringing a knife to a gunfight & [[Treat Work Sessions like the Cinema]] 4. Become an expert instead of a planner — [[Learn by Doing]] & [[Bias Toward Action]] 5. Get closure - free your short term memory by getting closure on tasks — [[Think, Don't Remember]] & [[Open Loops]] 1. Use [[GTD]] and an [[inbox]] 2. Break tasks down into actions that can be accomplished without dangling threads. You do the thing. It's done. You move on. 1. Not “call bank”, but “call bank at 555-555-5555, ask about fees and make notes on options” 6. Reduce the Number of Decisions — [[Decision Fatigue]] & [[Make the Decision that Informs all Subsequent Decisions]] 1. Use [[standard processes]] and systematize the administrative stuff in a simple, intuitive way, so that you don't have to think about “Where” or “How” To capture a task or not, but instead you can [[focus]] on the thing itself. — [[Standard Processes]] **** # More ## Source - [[How to Take Smart Notes]] ## Related - [[GTD]] - [[How to Take Smart Notes]]