The course Critical Thinking - Foundamentals of Good Reasoning defines critical thinking as a type of thinking where the focus is on making the arguments necessary to support reasoning.

Related Questions:

• What is an argument
• How to make an argument

Related Topics:

• Critical thinking basic elements
• Critical thinking

References

• Critical Thinking - Foundamentals of Good Reasoning | Israel X by edX

I believe that asking questions is important in almost every field because it helps to:

• find the reasons and the premises about one argument. This allow to understand better a concept.
• question if an argument is true or false. This allow to understand if a conclusion is true or false.
• analyse risks.
• solve problems.
• promote creativity.
• acquire new information about something we need to understand better.

However it is important not only to ask questions but ask questions and continuously search the best answers to that questions.

In the book How to take smart notes it is suggested to make sure everything ends up in one place like a central inbox where you can process them every day.

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• Productivity
• How to take notes

References

• How to take smart notes | 2017 | Sönke Ahrens

In the book How to take smart notes is suggested that the permanent notes should:

• be divided one for each idea and be formulated so they can be understood on their own to make it easier to understand it later.
• do not be organised by topic to allow to link the ideas to various topics and not restricting himself to a single topic. However a note can be used to write an overview of a topic.
• be linked to related notes.
• fit onto one screen and there should be no need to scrolling.

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Related Topics:

• How to take notes
• Questions to write a permanent note

References

• How to take smart notes | 2017 | Sönke Ahrens

In the book How to take smart notes is suggested to ask oneself the following question to define the notes index:

• In which context will I want to find the note again?

Moreover the index should:

• include a short phrase just near to the note link that indicates what the note contains.

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Related Topics:

• How to take notes

References

• How to take smart notes | 2017 | Sönke Ahrens

I may agree that having a single note for each idea can be useful, however I think that may be some drawbacks in writing a single note for each idea as suggested here. I think that in this way one may lose the overall view of the concepts and topics one is learning. I think that one should continuously switch from a detailed view of a concept (zoom in) to a overall view of a concept (zoom out) to learn something. I think that one could get both using: