Aidan Helfant on PKM for Learning

The Informed Life

Aidan Helfant is a college student who’s using personal knowledge management (PKM) to improve his learning. He’s also sharing his methods and tools to help other college students succeed. In this conversation, we unpack Aidan’s approach to note-taking for learning.

Show notes

• Aidan Helfant
• Aidan Helfant - YouTube
• Aidan’s newsletter
• Aidan’s blog
• Aidan Helfant (@AidanHelfant) / Twitter
• Ali Abdaal
• Building a Second Brain
• The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
• Linking Your Thinking
• League of Legends
• Stardew Valley - Wikipedia
• Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
• Cornell University
• Obsidian
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Google Workspace
• Notion
• Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes

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章

1. Aidan Helfant on PKM for Learning (00:00:00)

2. About Aidan (00:01:01)

3. PKM as a game (00:03:43)

4. Aidan's use cases (00:09:49)

5. Conceptual note-taking (00:14:46)

6. Examples of note types (00:21:37)

7. Crossing the streams (00:28:29)

8. Closing (00:33:47)