3 uses of post-it notes for reading and writing

At work, I often see colleagues buy all kinds of sticky notes, or stick them on the computer or on the partitions between the grids. In short, you will see colorful sticky notes everywhere in the office. Some people always feel that the sticky notes are not strong, and if they drop, the important information you recorded will be gone.

But we come into contact with massive amounts of information every day and generate countless ideas, which requires us to quickly distinguish which information is helpful to our writing. Our brain can't remember all the information, and can't help us quickly find the information we need in the large amount of information.

Countless thoughts, endless to-do things to deal with, one by one you squeeze and touch, fill our brains. Sticky notes can help us clear our brains, record all these things one by one, free our brains, make room, and better use our brains for thinking, creating, and generating unlimited creativity.

The first point: Sticky notes can create a more focused reading environment.

We prepared sticky notes and pens on the desk in advance. When we concentrate on reading, we read the wonderful things in the book, once any thoughts flash in our minds, we can take sticky notes at hand and lift the pen to write down the thoughts in the brain. Burn the sparks of thinking in your brain on visual sticky notes and continue reading without worrying about losing your inspiration.

The sticky notes are attached to the paper, which will not damage the book, but also recall the scenes and pictures of the reading when you turn to this place after reading.

The second point: Sticky notes can collect writing materials at any time.

Some materials needed for writing are continuously accumulated by sticky notes. When sticky notes are accumulated to a certain amount, people can organize them into mind maps.

Turn every flashed inspiration into your own writing material and collect it in sticky notes. This is the process of "visualizing" the memory fragments. Sticky notes act as a collection tool, collecting all our instant inspirations and ideas, waiting for us to organize, organize and create words.

The third point: Sticky notes can clarify writing ideas and establish a writing framework.

Compared with notebooks where the paper cannot be moved at will, the ability to move at will is a big advantage of sticky notes. Because we can freely arrange and combine, the unexpected combination produced after reorganization can clarify our writing ideas and establish our writing framework.

Turn your own inspiration fragments into sticky notes. We need to reorganize these sticky notes and put them on a writing board holder, which can be placed on a whiteboard or on a table, no matter where it is, it can form a whole frame. Post your own ideas, follow your own logic, and find the connection between them. In this way, you can organize your own thinking, and your thoughts that seem fragmented and disorderly become orderly.

Sticky note—a small tool that I used to look down on. I didn't expect to have so much substantive help for reading and writing. In particular, the role of clarifying writing ideas and establishing a writing framework really solves the big problem of unclear thoughts in writing.