How to Create an Outline with Digital Notes
Channel: Tiago Forte
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[0:00] in this video i'm going to show you how
[0:02] to
[0:03] outline a book summary now
[0:06] this is the fourth step we've done
[0:08] several previous steps to
[0:11] read the book to highlight it to export
[0:13] those highlights to progressively
[0:14] summarize
[0:15] those exports it's been actually quite a
[0:18] bit of work
[0:18] but this is where it all begins to pay
[0:20] off because what we want to do is by the
[0:23] time we sit down to write
[0:24] we want all of the thinking or most of
[0:27] the thinking to have already been done
[0:28] at that point
[0:30] when people sit down to try to do the
[0:31] thinking and the writing at the same
[0:33] time
[0:33] it's extremely difficult okay so that's
[0:36] where the outline comes in the outline
[0:37] is basically a plan
[0:39] it's a plan for when you sit down to
[0:41] actually do the writing and the next
[0:42] step
[0:43] the whole logic the whole sequence of
[0:45] arguments and supporting points is done
[0:47] this is such a powerful way of writing
[0:50] to have all the the sequence and all the
[0:52] supporting material right there right at
[0:54] hand
[0:55] so you don't have to interrupt the flow
[0:56] of writing to go search something
[0:58] on google or research something or read
[1:00] a book it's all right there in front of
[1:02] you
[1:03] so let's take a look at what it looks
[1:05] like to
[1:06] create an outline for a book summary
[1:10] so here we are back inside evernote
[1:12] which is the notes app that i use
[1:14] uh looking at the progressively
[1:17] summarized notes that we
[1:18] looked at in the previous step so one
[1:21] thing i want to observe is it's now been
[1:23] i think
[1:23] four or five days since i've seen this
[1:25] it was last week that i left off
[1:28] and not only is that okay that some time
[1:30] has