Sönke Ahrens

but everyday, basic writing.

Sure, planning will get you through your exams if you stick to them and push through. But it will not make you an expert in the art of learning/writing/note-taking

it reduces the likelihood of building and finding surprising connections between the notes themselves, which means a trade-off between its usability and usefulness.

The first idea lies at the heart of this book and is the technique of the simple slip-box

They struggle because they believe, as they are made to believe, that writing starts with a blank page.

The quality of a paper and the ease with which it is written depends more than anything on what you have done in writing before you even made a decision on the topic