Are you Wasting Your Time Taking Notes

And tips to make useful & valuable notes.

Prakash Joshi Pax
4 min readJul 9, 2024

There’s a huge rise in the use of PKM systems and tools. Knowledge workers are obsessed over it. They spend countless hours trying to create a perfect note-taking system, only to change it soon after.

Writing by hand made people more careful about what they noted down. Now, the convenience and ease of taking notes with digital tools make it easy to take too many notes without thinking.

With digital tools like Obsidian, Notion, and Tana, it’s become easier than ever to take notes. But this ease has led to some problems.

Most people have made the task of note-taking a full-time job.

They are obsessed over tiny details and want to jot down everything they hear and read.

People don’t realize that the more time we spend on these tools, the less we are getting done. We don’t get more output just because we are putting in more effort.

In this article, we’ll talk about some tips to make note-taking worth our time. I’ll share some tips to take notes effectively so that the efforts pay off.

Don’t be an Information Hoarder

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Prakash Joshi Pax
Prakash Joshi Pax

Written by Prakash Joshi Pax

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