You need to start taking notes on yourself, capture the knowledge you consume, the insights you digest, and the thoughts you generate. This isn't about productivity; it's about building a sustainable system for intellectual growth.

Most people maintain minimal notes, typically writing down things in a notebook, never to be seen again. These physical notes become inaccessible piles of information.

The main advantage of structured note-taking is in our search capabilities getting better over our own knowledge. Think of it as creating a personal file system for your mind, one that's actually searchable and accessible. Especially if you find yourself needing to recall that one fact from a lecture or a paper that u read and can’t remember it. In these cases, having all that information in a single place is a life-saver.