(highlight:: At the highest level, the triple-pass system consists of the following stages:
First Pass: Active Media Consumption. Take notes and highlight important points from the media you consume (e.g. books, articles, videos).Second Pass: Consolidate and Summarize Notes. Export notes and highlights from the first pass to a central note-taking system, then review, refine, and consolidate. This pass produces what Tiago Forte calls your “second brain“: an external system storing your knowledge in a format that can be easily searched and retrieved for use.Third Pass: Commit to Long-Term Memory using Spaced Repetition. Add the most important parts of your notes from the second pass to a spaced repetition system. This stores the information efficiently in your long-term memory so you can access it in-the-moment when needed.)
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(highlight:: In this pass, edit the highlights and notes that you’ve exported to your note-taking system. Activities here can include:
Deleting irrelevant or redundant notesSummarizing excerpts into key points, while keeping some direct quotes from the material that is notable or quote-worthyReformulating material into your own wordsBold-facing the most important points so your notes are “glanceable”Creating commentary on the material, expanding on points that you liked, critiquing points you disagreed with, filling in missing arguments, creating connections to other material in your knowledge base, or creating a high-level “book-review” style summaryMarking particularly important material for long-term memory)
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The advantage of this third pass is access to your knowledge in the moment, when it matters, without any external note taking tools. This is useful for the many situations where it’s not feasible to consult your notes. For example: job interviews, meetings, or creative work where speed of thought is important and you need lots of in-memory scaffolding to make progress.
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(highlight:: At the highest level, the triple-pass system consists of the following stages:
First Pass: Active Media Consumption. Take notes and highlight important points from the media you consume (e.g. books, articles, videos).Second Pass: Consolidate and Summarize Notes. Export notes and highlights from the first pass to a central note-taking system, then review, refine, and consolidate. This pass produces what Tiago Forte calls your “second brain“: an external system storing your knowledge in a format that can be easily searched and retrieved for use.Third Pass: Commit to Long-Term Memory using Spaced Repetition. Add the most important parts of your notes from the second pass to a spaced repetition system. This stores the information efficiently in your long-term memory so you can access it in-the-moment when needed.)
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(highlight:: In this pass, edit the highlights and notes that you’ve exported to your note-taking system. Activities here can include:
Deleting irrelevant or redundant notesSummarizing excerpts into key points, while keeping some direct quotes from the material that is notable or quote-worthyReformulating material into your own wordsBold-facing the most important points so your notes are “glanceable”Creating commentary on the material, expanding on points that you liked, critiquing points you disagreed with, filling in missing arguments, creating connections to other material in your knowledge base, or creating a high-level “book-review” style summaryMarking particularly important material for long-term memory)
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The advantage of this third pass is access to your knowledge in the moment, when it matters, without any external note taking tools. This is useful for the many situations where it’s not feasible to consult your notes. For example: job interviews, meetings, or creative work where speed of thought is important and you need lots of in-memory scaffolding to make progress.
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