Combining paper and digital tools for personal organization and productivity. You need:

• The main notebook, the backbone of the entire methond. You capture everything here: quick ideas, tasks, sketches.
• A “traveling” notebook: Jot down quick notes, then transfer those notes to your main notebook later.
• A digital task list/calendar: At the end of the day, go through your main notebook and add any tasks or events.
• Long-term digital storage: to digitize the most important items from your main notebook.

• Skim the material for bolded text, images, summaries, to produce a list of headlines;
• Each headline is then written in the form of a question;
• Record your “answers” to the reading questions under each corresponding header;
• Once you’ve finished reading the text, write a summary of the material from memory—this is the “recite” part of the process. 
• Finally, review your notes to make sure you’ve completely grasped the concepts.

Works for: dense written material.

Limiting the space you have to write your notes on is a way of filtering through the massive amounts of information you must process. 

It forces your brain to be selective and prioritize information.

For a non-paginated pad, you can:

• Put page numbers on the upper-right of each right-hand page but not on the left (e.g., 1, 2, 3, etc.). 
• Whenever you complete a page, put the page number in an index on the inside cover (front or back) and a few words to describe the content.
• The page numbers in the index do NOT need to be in order, as you’ll be scanning for content, then referring to the page. 
  

Using simple words and pictures helps us to see connections between pieces of information, get a better idea of what we understand and what we don’t, and remember it for later.

By using a combination of words and quick images, the note-taker listens, digests, and captures on paper the essence of what has been heard.