One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Paperback, 176 pages
English language
Published Feb. 23, 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author's primary claim is that Luhmann's system of keeping a slip-box (or "zettelkasten") full of interesting ideas and bibliographic references can help students, academics, and non-fiction writers be more productive.
Zettlekasten is an interesting system for organizing ideas. It sounds quite promising and I intend to try it out.
The presentation of the method is somewhat abstract making it difficult to know where to begin.
The text is also repetitive with the same ideas resurfacing again and again
毕竟是一个新的系统……等有足够的实践之后在回来评判这本书吧。
The ideas behind the book are good, but they're lost far and between the author's praises of the slip-box method. The amount of time spent explaining versus praising it is surprisingly low. Granted, it is a simple method, but the book would still do a good job explaining it at less than half its length. There are almost no examples -- the author does state some common pitfalls and that you need to trust your intuition, but at least one comprehensive example would have been nice.
