Duly Noted

Better thinking makes you a better person. And few things extend your mind as quickly and powerfully as the humble note. Notes let you fulfill commitments, manage complicated projects, and make your ideas real. Digital notes take you even further. By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden" where your thinking will blossom. "An informative guide to organizing and managing thoughts, with a digital focus."—Kirkus Reviews Who Should Read This Book? Anyone and everyone who wants to get control of their notes to generate better ideas, learning, and actions. Duly Noted is superb for students, academics, business people, technicians, writers, UX people, managers, leaders—virtually anyone who can benefit from taking and managing notes. Takeaways Learn best-practice note-taking principles so you can take more concise notes. Connect your notes to one another to create a personal network of ideas (your own personal “knowledge garden”). Capture ideas before you lose them. Organize your notes so that you can find and make sense of them later. Learn how connected notes can spark insight and lead to new ideas and learning. Explore how notes can help you collaborate with other minds, including artificial ones Learn how to use Obsidian, a powerful digital note-taking tool. Follow the how-to exercises to lead you through the note-taking maze.

John Duly was an average man with little to live for...or so he thought, until the events in his life drove him to evaluate his own self-worth of living or dying. As a struggling alcoholic, John failed to acknowledge even his greatest achievements. His heroic actions in World War II were downplayed by his lack of confidence. The friendships he made were underscored by his feelings of self-pity and insignificance. It wasn't until he met a young woman, that his life was transformed into a soul-searching event. He started to question his feelings, his weaknesses. He started to gather the pieces of his past. Would they explain the reasons for his shattered stability as a man or would they only drive him deeper into his lonely persona?

John Duly was an average man with little to live for...or so he thought, until the events in his life drove him to evaluate his own self-worth of living or dying. As a struggling alcoholic, John failed to acknowledge even his greatest achievements. His heroic actions in World War II were downplayed by his lack of confidence. The friendships he made were underscored by his feelings of self-pity and insignificance. It wasn't until he met a young woman, that his life was transformed into a soul-searching event. He started to question his feelings, his weaknesses. He started to gather the pieces of his past. Would they explain the reasons for his shattered stability as a man or would they only drive him deeper into his lonely persona?

PTSD sucks. Just ask nineteen year-old Aurora. She's dealt with it for the past two years. Effing car crash. Resigned to live a mediocre life with her friends Percocet and Xanax, she's coped on her own. Terrified of stepping beyond her backyard, broken and damaged Aurora doesn't need anyone, anyways. Until she meets - him. Shy but smoking hot, Nate Johnson has a mouth as smart as hers, and can handle every ounce of sass she dishes out. Immediately, he's hooked by Aurora's sarcastic wit. A man on a mission, he wants to help her over her fear of cars. He needs to, if he's ever going to have her as part of his world - a passion he's kept hidden from her. As he succeeds with the impossible goal, he finds he's curing more than just her PTSD, he's healing her heart. But when her fears collide with his passion, it drives Aurora away. From him. From them. From the best thing to ever happen to her. Because sometimes love just isn't enough. However, Nate wants her back and he's willing to give up everything he loves for her. Aurora refuses to have him sacrifice his passion because of her, and dreams up a risky plan to stop him. It's dangerous. It's foolish. And if it doesn't kill her first, it could just save them both.

Witty, quirky, vulnerable, and sassy insights and inspiration through notes for the 20 something stuck in the Quarter Life Crisis. With real talk and real thoughts from someone who can relate.

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