3 types of note taking - according to Cal Newport

He also answered someone who asked about that in his newest “slow distraction” episode.
I disagree completely. I use agenda for everything: daily tasks, plans, ideas, projects, study notes, documment information. Never lost focus because of the ammount of stuff. You can open a note in an individual window, as clean as you’d expect + it looks great with my yellow iMac.
Agenda has the structure for almost any system just build it to fit your needs (I use Johnny decimal now).
It can become even more powerful with the power of audio summarisation using my gpt shortcut (and so many other shortcuts you can build with it - lol, I feel like one of these sponsored youtubers talking about my shortcut here)

Link: A Siri Shortcut to Summarize audio to text using ChatGPT

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