(2018-07-31) Sunstrom6 Fundamentals For Creating The Ultimate Commonplace System

Ludvig Sunstrom: The 6 Fundamentals for Creating the Ultimate Commonplace Book System

(1) Choose a Medium: Physical or Digital

*I recommend you go digital.

For now: Evernote and OneNote are the two most popular programs.*

(2) Divide Your Life into Areas

select the top areas of your life that you spend the most time on

That’s step 1. Step 2 is subdividing those areas into smaller areas

By working with these subdivisions, you will teach your mind—trigger a Great Synthesis—to come up with an even better way to think about these things.

(3) How to Create Instant Associations Using Overview Documents

How Do You Make an Overview Document?

Simplifying the Complex

Key Takeaway

(4) Create a “Review File” for Your Profession

The generalized version would look like this:

• The best work (or failures) of your peers.
• Images, artwork or other aspects of their work.
• Statistics of your industry.

My suggestion is to collect information that:

• Will help you excel faster at your craft.
• You can draw inspiration from in your work.
• Can scale over time.

(5) How to Make Ideation Effortless and Scale-Up Your Research Efforts

How to Turn Long-Term Projects Into Manageable Pieces and Cut out the Crappy, Boring Parts!

what if there was some way to make it so that most—or even all—of the project could be done in one or just a few periods of intense work?

You divide a project up in as many separate pieces as possible. Then you create corresponding sections/categories/documents in your commonplace for this. Then you trust your pattern recognition

I Use the Same Methods For All My Research Too

(6) Creative Work on Steroids: A Simple System for Collecting, Sorting, and Finalizing Your Ideas

My main separation for these things is between (1) raw ideas and (2) ideas in progress that I’ve done some sort of revision on.