Dr. Cal Newport

I'm going to move an idea into there as soon as I can.

I'm going to move proofs out of a notebook and into formally marked up like you would for a paper, you know, as soon as I would.

So this idea, this is something I've been leaning into more, is capture the notes in

In the tool you're going to use, take out the middleman in some sense, right?

So it's reducing friction but also puts you in the right mind space.

Like, okay, this idea, I'm going to put it where I'm going to need it later as opposed to a more elaborate third-party system that you construct that you then later pull everything out of as needed.

This is what I've been doing more recently.

Let's just get straight to the tool I'm eventually going to use with maybe a high-quality notebook intermediary if I'm actually literally working out thoughts.

So math, you have to work out thoughts.

But I'll get that into an actual paper format pretty quickly.

Yeah.

Well, I'm smiling because when I was 22 –

I wrote this book called How to Become a Straight A Student, right?

And the whole premise of the book was, I'm going to talk to actual college students who have straight A's and who don't seem completely ground out, right?

Like not burnt out.

And I'm just going to interview them, right?

And the protocol was, how did you study for the last test that you studied for?

How did you take notes for the last?

So I was just asking them to walk through their methodology.

The core idea of that book was,