How to Take Notes like Kendrick Lamar

I'm a huge fan of drawing a quick portrait to help me remember the person I am gathering notes about / from. This always helps humanize and give life to the information I am capturing. I am an Apple Notes fiend for calls, but when I have the time, I like to take in Calls, Keynotes, and Workshops through a visual format I call "Illuminated Notes."

Great video! Would love if you discussed how you take notes. What apps do you use, what your notes look like, etc.

This is really good, David. Keep it up.

Some of my best songs have come from late night song writing sessions where i have the mic recording and just forget about them. Later I’ll come back to these song ideas and am amazed by what i was able to do. Thanks for the video! Extremely inspiring.

This is a fantastic video, David. Thank you for sharing this. I use Obsidian to capture ideas and notes. So far so good. The graph view of Obsidian inspires me to keep on writing notes and connect them with the related notes. It's bliss.

Love this! I had not idea Kendrick did this. He’s so meticulous damn

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Keep working. Very soon you will be one the best and most viewed channels

I only wish Steve Jobs was further ahead of me in life and then I might have been much more productive by now.
What I do now is rely on my girlfriend Siri to spontaneously access my Apple Reminders… where I can quickly create ‘notes’ of whatever thought popped in my head. This happens while driving, walking (with the aid of my AirPods), and especially when I’m trying to go to sleep for the night.
I’ll say ‘Hey Siri… create Reminder’. I could go on but at that point I usually wait to hear a confirmation that Siri isn’t mad at me and is indeed listening. Once Siri responds then it’s time a brief tussle with my stumbling lips and I spit on out whatever gem of wisdom I’ve been blessed to grab out of the air.
It’s not for ‘composition’ but that’s usually a longer-form perculation that processes the kernels I’ve gathered in my Reminders. It is then a huge help that I’ve been able to preserve these kernels.
I’m sure there’s lot’s of other ways/tools to do this same thing. :)

i know you may use many methods for notetaking but what is your favorite preference? do you prefer typing your notes or writing on paper?

Good job

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I learned a lot from this video. Thanks so much for producing it.

Thanks David. I think another improtant thing to talk is the note mangement- I often write notes all around since many years ago and cannot find where they are, lol.

I take notes all the time when I'm thinking about my day

I think about alot of situations and quotes someone might of said and I write that quote down and I just go on a go on and then I can't stop writing I fill up the whole page with notes and like you mentioned it helps you for future writing projects because you dont have to think because u already made notes weeks prior

Good vid - interesting that the principles of compounding keep cropping up. Doing the right thing over a long period accrues serious competitive advantage

Hey David, I love this video man. Your analogy of "slow cooking" his ideas is perfect.

Also, the editing of this video is wow. I felt like was watching something from vice or netflix.

Aaaannnd, the perspective on note taking, then reviewing them is very powerful. Probably an area that I could improve on.

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Note taking is a skill that I've been wanting to improve. I take so many notes, but I think only 20% of them see the light of day

can somebody show their examples? i dont know where to start

Tpab is even greater in terms of ideas, introspection, experiences, talks with god, and complex rhymes.

Very well made. Great content. More Kendrick analysis please

Brilliant man thank you for putting this out there! I indeed did take notes and totally agree with you everyone could do well with taking the everyday and finding something inspirational out of it!

DAMN! That was good, David.

Wow this is the best video's I have seen thank you

Thanks for these amazing tips. Your video has given me very useful tips for being more intentional and focused with my writing. For many years I never considered myself a writer. I constantly told myself that I sucked at it. Now I am embracing the process and thrill of writing. What changed for me was realizing the plethora of journals and articles I have written over the past 10 years. I have used these personal experiences to empower others. And will continue to do so. Thanks again.

Nice video. what editing tool do you use and also for the animation?

WOW! The production quality of this video is amazing. How does it not have millions of views?

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This reminds me of Woody Allen's idea drawer. The key is to write everything down, no matter how small. We never know when one of those scraps will be useful, either as a starter, or reinvented as a vital part of something else.

Workflowy is kinda nice tool for this.

Great video David. Thanks. I started using Roam Research but it's been a bit of a slog. Would you recommend any particular note taking apps or systems?

Amazing video! I don't regret subbing and getting the newsletter

I didn't take a note while watching your video, because I think, I will feel distracted (thus I feel guilty if I miss a point from your video). How can I take a note while watching, and not feel distracted?

Came here for rap, left here ready for my last month of AP U.S. History

the difference is, students arent writing down ideas, they're writing down information they need to learn for their exam that isn't useful to them after that exam, which is why they throw those notes away after

It isn't note-taking alone. What you do after note-taking is the key. Don't break the streak.

Superb share with plenty of real simple tips and process. Thank you

I haven't started a note-taking process yet. But have been taking notes in a substack.
Then using notions for Stand-up ideas or theme notes.

Video is helpful thank you.


4 types are helpful.

Inspiring: Anything that is going to get you excited when you see it.
Useful: Anything which could be a building block/idea to share.
Easily lost: something you might lose in the future.
Personal: unique and hard won knowledge.

Instantly connecting with your work. You deserve so much success.

I take notes in my journal in the morning at first asking three major reflection questions. 1. What am I worried about? 2. What am I hoping for in the future? 3. How do I feel? After Answering, I think about my Highlight to-do for the day, while bullet out my schedule. I've been wanting to pick up the craft of answering specific questions on Quora and sharing my story that way. I also want to practice writing Morning Pages on Notion. I'm an average 40-60 wpm typer. Would like to be faster, any suggestions? Also are there any suggestions on how to improve my writing craft?

Even biggie said, "relax and take notes."

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A lot of his notes come from joe budden podcast, Twitter and from other rappers

This helped a lot