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Strategic Synthesis: Progressive Summaries Shaping Your Second Brain
How to combine your notes to shape a Second Brain
In a recent article I delved into why you need to engage with your notes to increase their value. For effective learning, our brain requires challenges. Merely jotting down notes passively may serve as information storage, but engaging with your notes can elevate them into a productivity booster.
In this article I want to give you a deeper dive into one of the methods you can use for engaging with your notes: the progressive summary.
What is a progressive summary?
Essentially, I see progressive summarization as writing a “summary of a summary”.
When I started my productivity journey, the number of notes I took and with it the amount of information I had quickly grew. It grew to an amount which craves for structurization and techniques for quick review.
When taking notes digitally, they tend to become quite extensive. Once we master 10 finger writing, we can write 60 words per minute and more. This is more than three times faster than fast handwriting (15–20 wpm). As it is easier to capture a lot of information digitally, we tend to do it. During meetings and when taking digital notes from books, we…
