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Here are some quotes from my Strategy cards: If it’s a really long story or example, I will just jot down a few notes on the key points and then put something like: “For a story about _ see: pg 14 in. If I am quoting someone quoting someone else, I’ll usually write “qtd in.” To make this extra clear, I always put a circle around the first quotation mark. It’s very important that you mark quotes properly so you never risk forgetting to attribute. They’re either famous quotes or quotes from the writer that I think are smart. Most of the time, what I write down are quotes (I used to put them on a blog instead but it was too unwieldy). Either sentences in my own writing, words I like, questions I have, or examples I think might fit somewhere and want to learn more about. So those are the kinds of notes I write to myself. Also, where he ran toward the explosion at City Point.
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Grant–incident at Mathew Brady’s studio where glass fell on him and he didn’t move. We always decide whether we continue or not.” (Will) “Our actions our constrained, our will is not. “Gaman–the Japanese word for endurance” (Persistence) “We know objectively that we learn from failure, yet we spend all our time trying to avoid it. “Don’t be the slave of circumstance.” (intro) For instance, as I was preparing for my next book, The Obstacle is The Way, I filled out thousands of these cards for ideas and concepts that I wanted included in the book.
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If I have a thought, I write it down on a 4×6 notecard and identify it with a theme–or if I am working on a specific project, where it would fit in the project. By the end of it, I promise the system will make sense. It’s difficult to describe this in any linear way so I am just going to do this in kind a brain dump way. But it’s still be hugely helpful to me and I think I’m in a unique position to explain this method to people. What he taught me was neat, clean and orderly.
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If anything, I use a perverted version of a system taught to me by the genius Robert Greene, when I was his research assistant. Now to be clear, this is not “my” notecard system. It’s responsible for helping me publish three books in three years, (along with other books I’ve had the privilege of contributing to), write countless articles published in newspapers and websites, send out my reading recommendations every month, and make all sorts of other work and personal successes possible. All I can say is that since learning it about 7 years ago, it has totally transformed my process and drastically increased my creative output. Then enter the number of copies you wish to print and click "OK.After the response to this recent LifeHacker piece, I thought I would explain the system I use to take notes, research books and keep track of anecdotes, stories and info I come across in my work. Go to the "Paper source" section, select the printer tray you wish to print to and click "OK." Type in the details for your index cards and press "Ctrl+Enter" to move to a new page. Select "Index Card, (4圆 in.)" from the "Paper size" drop-down list. Then click the "Page Setup" dialog box launcher at the bottom of the "Page Setup" group.Ĭlick the "Paper" tab in the "Page Setup" dialog box. Select the "Page Layout" tab from the ribbon. Load the sheet of index card into your printer tray and click "OK." Printing Single Index Cards Then type in the content for the index card, pressing the "Tab" key to move to the next card.Ĭlick the Office Button and "Print" to load the "Print" dialog box.Ĭlick "Properties," then select the "Paper/Quality" tab in the "Properties" dialog box.Ĭhoose "Letter, 8.5x11 in" under "Size is" and click "OK." Select "Avery US Letter" from the "Label vendors" pull-down list.Ĭhoose "8389" from "Product number" and click "OK."Ĭlick "New Document" to load a blank sheet of 4 inch by 6 inch index cards on your page. Then click "Options." The "Label Options" dialog box opens. Select the "Labels" tab in the "Envelopes and Labels" dialog box.