Reading Online and How to Make Better Notes

Building your Procurement Second Brain

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This is the continuation of our Personal Knowledge Management for Procurement Professionals.

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How to read efficiently online

Reading online sounds easy, but most people do not tap into the power of what reading online can truly do for you. In this chapter, I will break down my online reading process and suggest that if you’re serious about building up your digital second brain, you follow along and try this out.

Firstly, we’re overwhelmed by the amount of data and content online.

Studies estimate that the average person consumes several gigabytes of information daily, equivalent to hundreds of newspapers worth of content*(Building a Second Brain - Tiago Forte). There is no way you are taking all of this in, and there is no way you can take those thoughts and ideas away and play with them. Break them. Dismantle them. Transform them.

That’s the goal of our reading, right? We want to be inspired.

We want to meld new ideas with our thoughts to create something new in the world.

So we must stop reading online and consuming, move forward, and read later and take our time.

Read later simply refers to saving pieces of content, such as an article, a podcast, a YouTube video, or a Whitepaper, and returning to it at a dedicated time to focus solely on it.